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The bluebonnets have arrived in North Texas and I was out shooting them yesterday morning.

A young Mother showed up and was taking portrait shots of her two children in the field. I introduced myself and took some shots of them sitting with her. After we were done, I snapped this shot as I walked away......and I think it was the best of the bunch since it captured for me the innocence of youth.

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Another shot from my trip to The Bluebonnet Trail just south of Dallas early last month....

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(Photo by my wife - Bev Clow)

During the first couple of weeks in April, some parts of the Texas countryside are covered with spectacular patches of bluebonnet wildflowers that absolutely are a photographer's dream...

My wife and I ventured this Sunday about 20 miles south of Dallas to a 2.8 mile stretch of road called Sugar Ridge Road and were stunned - fields and hills covered with bluebonnets for as far as the eye could see.

Here's a profile shot my wife snapped of me as I shot away....and as you can see, I was focused on the shot ahead that was even more spectacular than the shot to my side.

And here's the photo I took while she took this one of me:

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There are times when words can't adequately describe the brilliance of nature.... and this was one of those moments for me.

Needless to say, I felt privileged to be standing at this spot with this scene before me.... and lucky to have my lens in my hands on a magical blue sky afternoon.


Here's a photo my wife took of me taking this very image:

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Nature paints the pictures and we are just lucky to be present when it all comes together.

I happened to be at the right place at the right time with the right equipment in my hands.

This is "as shot" with my Nikon D80. I did not crop it and I did not add saturation - the only "tweak" I did was give the image a nudge in the contrast department.

The horse and farm reside along Sugar Ridge Road approximately six miles southeast of Ferris, Texas....

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