Each month in the year brings different photographic opportunities. As part of my 30 Seasons project I'm starting to document each of these opportunities so I can revisit them in the coming years.Last year I learned about the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Potomac Maryland. Every year the parks department plants sunflowers in a large open field. I tried to photograph the flowers last year, but I was about a week too late to get some good sunflower photos. The peak of the sunflowers are typically the second week of July.
This year I was able to keep close tabs on the development of the fields and received scouting reports from several other local photographers. This allowed me to visit the fields a couple of times this season during the peak of the sunflower blooms.
My recent visits allowed me to take a large number of photographs and several that I feel are good enough to go into my portfolio.
I plan on returning to the fields later in the year once the flower heads have gone to seed. I suspect I should be able to get some good bird photos at that time.
Here are some of the photo highlights this year from the Sunflower fields.
Sunflower Sunset — © 2008 Mark Anderson
Sunflower Light Painting — © 2008 Mark Anderson
Sunflowers in Infrared — © 2008 Mark Anderson
