April 16, 2004
Tulip festival again
The other day I got up at 5:30am and drove north to the heart of the Skagit Valley. It is the time of the annual Tulip Festival. After WWII, a Dutch family emigrated to the region and took up tulip growing on a pretty large scale.
Now tourists from Seattle (and Vancouver, BC) drive up in large numbers every weekend in March and April to check out the fields of flowers. I took a lot of photos with my digital but had some difficulties with the low light (the sun was just rising). I made some accomodations as I went along--using the exposure lock. 
You'll see that I still had some lens flare from the low angle of the sun.I quickly figured out that while I was impressed by the large fields of tulips they didn't really photograph too well. The swathes of color in the dull landscape just didn't come across. So I changed to taking some close-ups, thinking that these would prove more interesting.
Posted by artandscience at April 16, 2004 08:55 PM