Texas Wildflowers in the Wind © 2015 Patty Hankins

I’ve recently added a new photo – Texas Wildflowers in the Wind – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.

Texas Wildflowers in the Wind is the second wildflower photograph from my 2014 trip to Texas that is available as a matted print. It features two of the wildflowers I saw every day during the trip – Texas Bluebonnets and Texas Paintbrush. As I drove through east Texas, the roadsides were filled with large patches of bluebonnets and paintbrush. I loved seeing the combination of the purple and orange flowers.

One afternoon, the wind was blowing wildly. I tried photographing this wonderful field of flowers – but just couldn’t get my typical sharply focused image where I stopped all the motion. And then I realized that what had caught my eye was not just the flowers – but also they way they were moving in the wind. So I adjusted the settings on my camera to get as long of a shutter speed as I could manage in the mid-afternoon sun, and starting taking photographs. Finally I captured this image – which showed what I saw in the field – the wonderful Texas Wildflowers dancing in the wind.

Texas Wildflowers in the Wind is available as a matted print on my website.