Gold Poppy

Bartlett Lake  

Cave Creek Arizona

Chong Ho Alex Yu

Sony Alpha 900

March 2010

Native Wildflowers

Mexican Gold Poppies are the vivid wildflowers that carpet the desert of the Southwest US once every decade or so. The last spectacular blooming occurred in 2008. This year I visited Bartlett Lake, but the view is not as good as before. Mexican Gold Poppies are native in Arizona and California. As wild flowers, they can survive under tough conditions
Some people argue that Gold Poppies are colorful and converting color images into black and white could not reflect the essence of these colorful flowers. In my view, on some occasions simplicity can bring out the hidden essence of the subject matter.