Bunch of blue wildflowers – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/400, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
I don’t know what species of blue wildflowers these are, I just know that I enjoyed seeing and photographing them. I’ll look them up later and find out what they are but sometimes I don’t care if I “know” exactly what species I am photographing, whether it is a bird, flower or beast, I just want to be there in the moment, keenly focused on my subject.
These wildflowers caught my eye in a canyon in the Wasatch Mountains before the sun had risen high enough to light them up and I didn’t bother to photograph them then but on the way back up the canyon the sun had risen high enough that I couldn’t resist taking a few shots.
Life is good.
Mia
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Update: This is Common Bugloss, Anchusa officinalis, which is an introduced species from the Borage family.
They are lovely. They look quite like our Patterson’s Curse (Echium plantagineum) which can (and does) turn whole fields blue. A weed, and classified as a noxious weed, but so very pretty.
What splendid beauty. But chances are good it’s considered a weed. I love weeds except for goat heads and I’m busily slaughtering all the baby goat heads I can. They don’t play fair! 😉