Wordless Wednesday: Tennessee Valley hike

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Wordless Wednesday: Tennessee Valley hike

15 April, 2009 by Adam R. Paul

Sunday, 12 April 2009:

This was my first trip out w/my new P&S camera, a Canon G10

Aster sp. by you.

Aster sp.

Use Trail by you.

Use trail

Fuzzy bush by you.

I should really know what this bush is, but it’s escaping me – anyone?

Yellow-eyed Grass by you.

Yellow-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium californicum

Lower Tennessee Valley Trail by you.

Lower Tennessee Valley Trail w/Lupines

California Poppy by you.

California Poppy / Eschscholzia californica

Trail, lagoon and ocean by you.

Lagoon near Tennessee Beach

Tennessee Beach by you.

Tennessee Beach

Flower-strewn hillside by you.

Poppy-strewn hillside

Tennessee Valley Trail by you.

Tennessee Valley Trail

Headlands hills by you.

Green hills

Non-native(?) flower by you.

South African Wandflower / Sparaxis tricolor (introduced)

(Thanks to Flickr user martinsanford for the ID!)

Green hills by you.

More green hills

Seaside Daisy by you.

Seaside Daisy / Erigeron glaucus

Lupine hills by you.

Lupine sp.

Lower Tennessee Valley Trail by you.

Lower Tennessee Valley Trail

Rock strata by you.

Striated, twisted rock

Posted in Hiking, Nature, Photography, Wildflowers, Wordless Wednesday | 10 Comments

10 Responses

on 15 April, 2009 at 16:54 | Reply montucky

That new camera is doing great! Lovely photos!
- on 15 April, 2009 at 17:22 | Reply Adam R. Paul
  
  Thanks – so far I like it a lot. It’s the first on-SLR I’ve had that has so much manual control.
on 15 April, 2009 at 17:38 | Reply ankush

beautiful shots!
congratulations on the new equipment!
- on 15 April, 2009 at 18:31 | Reply Adam R. Paul
  
  Thanks, Ankush! I’ve always wanted something more portable than my SLR kit, but more flexible than the compact P&Ses I’ve always had – so far the G10 seems to fit the bill perfectly!
on 18 April, 2009 at 00:46 | Reply Mary Carlson

Adam, your photos are so sharp and crisp. It looks like you made a really good choice for a P&S. It looks like the Tennessee Valley area is a place I should add to my list to visit. I really like the variety of flowers that were available. Obviously, it was the right time of year for a visit there.
- on 19 April, 2009 at 19:34 | Reply Adam R. Paul
  
  Thanks, Mary – so far I’m liking it a lot! Tennessee Valley is a pretty, and very non-demanding, walk, but it’s also very popular….
on 18 April, 2009 at 03:47 | Reply Tom

Adam- Ah, the G10, what a wonderful looking camera. Enjoy it. Out of all your images on this post, I found the yellow-eyed grass the most interesting. In Ohio we have blue flowered sysirinchiums, but certainly no yellow flowered ones like californicum. And what a huge flower it is, our blue eyed grass flowers seem to be much, much smaller.

Tom
- on 19 April, 2009 at 19:36 | Reply Adam R. Paul
  
  I’m loving the G10 so far – although not really pocketable, it’s way smaller than my 30D + lenses, and the full manual controls are more than welcome!
  
  We have blue sysirinchiums (S. bellum), Blue-eyed Grass, too, and it’s quite common this time of year. The Yellow one is much less so – I’ve only seen it a couple of times. They’re about the same size, perhaps 1.5-2″ across at the widest.
on 26 January, 2011 at 15:43 | Reply alex

i love the yellow eyed flower
- on 26 January, 2011 at 16:49 | Reply Adam R. Paul
  
  Thanks, Alex!