When: Spring

Where: Field/Oregon

How: I’ve always wanted a chance to shoot the California Poppies, and when the time finally came, I made sure I got plenty of images. With this image I used a technique of shooting though one subject to another. The purple haze you see in the foreground is from Purple Vetch flowers. I positioned the Vetch in between my camera and the poppies. By focusing on the poppies and shooting my lens wide open at f/3.5, the shallow depth of field totally blurred the Vetch, and turn it into a purple haze. It’s a very cool effect and most the time this technique is hard to accomplish, but every once in a while, you get lucky. I positioned the large poppy in the left third of the frame as it looks less composed then placing it in the center of the frame.