{"id":349,"date":"2012-03-05T03:27:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T03:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2013-05-17T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:48:10","slug":"february-week-4-wildflowers-are-going-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"February week 4 – Wildflowers are going wild"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mission Bell<\/p><\/div>\n

The wildflower season is well underway in the Bay Area.\u00c2\u00a0 Although February is usually for the early flowers, the sunny days may have hasten some blossoms.\u00c2\u00a0 The lack of rain seems to also have kept the grasses short so the flowers are more visible.<\/p>\n

Get up and out early is the rule for wildflowers because surely before noon the wind will pick up and make it difficult or impossible to photograph the splendid colors atop thin steams ever waiting for a little breeze to set them in motion, dancing on the hillsides or in the meadows.<\/p>\n

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Star Lily<\/p><\/div>\n

There are some wonderful finds right now on the Fairfax-Bolinas road below Mt. Tamalpais.\u00c2\u00a0 You will find pull outs quite often and a variety of floral subjects everywhere:\u00c2\u00a0 Douglas Iris, Morning Glory, Wallflowers, Milkmaids, Star Lilies and a few Mission Bells.<\/p>\n

The backgrounds are pretty busy so you will want to isolate your subjects by making sure the background is at a distance and in the shadow.\u00c2\u00a0 I like to use a shaded background so it goes very dark or black.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes you have to get into very \u00e2\u20ac\u0153contorted\u00e2\u20ac\u009d positions to achieve this angle.<\/p>\n

For both of these images I was still getting some distraction in the background so I chose to use a ring light flash.\u00c2\u00a0 I used a diffuser for the Mission Bell because the sun was very bright and then filled in the shadowing areas of the bloom with the flash.\u00c2\u00a0 The Mission Bell is found among oak and brush, but you must look closely to see it because it blends in with the background.\u00c2\u00a0 Another name for these bowl shaped flowers is the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153checker lily.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The roots of the Mission Bells were eaten and used in medicines by Native Americans.<\/p>\n

Also in the Lily Family near by were many Star lilies on the rocky outcrops.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a very showy flower with multiple star shaped flowers.\u00c2\u00a0 Since all parts of this flower are poisonous another common name is the Death Camas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The wildflower season is well underway in the Bay Area.\u00c2\u00a0 Although February is usually for the early flowers, the sunny days may have hasten some blossoms.\u00c2\u00a0 The lack of rain seems to also have kept the grasses short so the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-5D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}