Went up for a hike Saturday at this great park in the East Bay Hills. Poppies have been amazing this year, but I think there are only a few weeks left before they start to fade and disappear. Been trying to get up there for the last couple weeks, then made a point to do it this weekend to capture this kind of shot for this challenge. Came out pretty close to my pre-visualized expectation. I just wish this was advanced editing ... not so much for the editing, but so i could make the picture BIGGER!
Spent a good bit of time looking through the field for just the right poppy to shoot, and spied this one while I was lying on the ground shooting one of its neighbors. Shot this one prone as well, getting as close as I could with my 14mm lens without throwing a shadow on the flower. Sun was behind me and a bit to the left.
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