Blooms

I have included flowers, fruit, trees, lichens, and mushrooms in the Boom Gallery. I'm especially drawn to small, sometimes tiny, flowers that are often overlooked by the casual observer but are exquisitely beautiful when they are photographed with a macro lens and printed at many times their original size.

That does not mean that when I find a perfectly beautiful rose in perfect lighting in my neighbors yard, I will not be as equally delighted to photograph it and included that rose in my Bloom Gallery.

Daisy Just After Morning Fog Lifted -- My Back Yard -- San Jose, California

Felicia amelloides (C. Linnaeus) Voss

White Rose and Buds in the Afternoon --Almaden Valley -- San Jose, California

Rosa sp. (C. Linnaeus, 1753)

Woodrush Tarweed Flower --Almaden Quicksilver Park -- San Jose, California

Hemizonia congesta ssp. luzulifolia

A Bright Spot in a Dark Garden

Yellow Dandelion Taraxacum officinale (F.H. Wigg, 1780) -- Almaden Valley, San Jose, California

Autumn Bliss Raspberry -- My Back Yard -- San Jose, California

Rubus idaeus (C. Linnaeus- 1753)

Matilija Poppy -- Los Gatos Creek Trail -- Los Gatos, California

Romneya coulteri (Harvey, 1845) This is a plant native to California.

Blue Rosemary flower and Red Rose Hip -- Almaden Valley -- San Jose, California

Rosemarinus officinalis (C. Linnaeus, 1753) and Rosa sp. (C. Linnaeus, 1753)

Forest of Labelia

Lobelia erinus (C. Linnaeus, 1753)

Wild Rose -- Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, Ridgefield Washington

Rosa gallica (C. Linnaeus, 1753)

Yellow Star Thistle Flower and Bud --Almaden Quicksilver Park -- San Jose, California

Centaurea solstitialis (C. Linnaeus, 1753) This is a non-native species and is considered to be invasive by the USDA.

Lichen" "Man Running Down Tree Limb

Physcia adscendens (Th. Fr.) H. Olivier

Almaden Quicksilver Park, San Jose California

Lichen "man" Running Down Tree Branch--Black and White

Physcia adscendens (Th. Fr.) H. Olivier

Almaden Quicksilver Park, San Jose California

Orange and Pale-Green Lichen --Almaden Quicksilver Park, San Jose California

Orange and Pale-Green Lichen Black and White --Almaden Quicksilver Park, San Jose California

Los Gatos Trail Mushrooms

Mushroom Species not yet Identified.

Hand Held 3-shot HDR of Spectacular Oregon White Oak -- -- Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Ridgefield Washington

Quercus garryana (Douglas ex Hook, 1826)

Monterey Pine Snag --Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California

Pinus radiata (D. Don, 1836)

Monterey Pine Snag Black and White --Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, California

Pinus radiata (D. Don, 1836)