Tag: Old Mine

After one of our morning photo shoots in Yankee Boy Basin, we decided to check out Governor Basin, which is accessed via a 4WD road off of the road to Yankee Boy Basin.

We only planned to spend a few minutes in the basin, since we wanted to get back down before the morning traffic, typically tour groups or people in rented jeeps traveling the 4WD roads in this area, complicated the drive back down the narrow roadway on the mountainside.

Consequently, I did not get out my DSLR and other camera gear.  I walked around with my iPhone getting images of the general area and the many wildflowers in the meadow here.

There is an old mine site in this basin, along with a currently operating mine.  The mine is on private property and off limits for visitors.

I was not initially aware of the profusion of wildflowers here, until I walked away from our parking location on the roadway.

Initially, I only saw a few batches of wildflowers among the large boulders scattered around near our vehicle.

As I walked further along the roadway, over a slight rise, I began to see large batches of wildflowers.

I’m not a wildflower expert, so I cannot guarantee that I’ve got the names of the wildflowers correct.  In trying to identify the flowers via online information, I find that many of the sources have inadequate photos (small, too far away, low resolution), making it difficult to have complete confidence in the identification.  There also appear to be hybrids of some of the flowers with variations in colors.  I suppose I will have to acquire wildflower books to do a better job with this task.  If readers note misidentified flowers, please let me know.

I got down low with my iPhone to get close ups of some of the wildflowers with the mountains in the background, focusing on the nearby flowers with the background out of focus.  Since I only used my iPhone, I could squat down among the flowers and avoid trampling them, which I might have done had I used a tripod and DSLR.

Since the background was already blurry and not the focus of my images, I used a vignette blur or a lens vignette on some of the images to aid in directing the eye onto the subject matter.

I have used artistic license in the shooting and editing of these photos in an attempt to get striking images.  I hope that I have not over done the editing and that viewers will enjoy these images.

Until next time,

Ken