While visiting Casa Gallina two weeks ago in what I would call the bottomland of Taos - a rich, wonderful product of hundreds if not thousands of years of runoff sediment that is the envy of any gardener - I noticed a field totally empty of anything except wild iris. My bet would be that these iris are pests or weeds to farmers and ranchers but in a week or so, that field will be a visual treat of blues and purples. At higher elevations in the mountains, the iris will begin to bloom as early as the first week in June and continue throughout the month. There are several places in northern New Mexico that are just full of these beauties. The photographs below were made over several late mountain springs, off Highway 64 between Tres Piedras and Tierra Amarilla.
The colors and even petal shapes are amazingly varied, as is demonstrated by the photographs above and below.
To get truly intimate iris portraits, it helps to sit down or get on your belly and shoot them straight on or from below. For a different sense of their character, stand above them and shoot down.
Perhaps I will see you with your camera the next time I am out shooting!
until next Monday
DB
a passion for the image
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