Shooters in the Amarillo Area this Weekend!

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Go north on 287 about 10 miles north of the Oklahoma border and come into this huge field of wild Daisies- several hundred acres- running on both sides of the highway and up and down several valleys. This field runs for less than 1/2 mile along the road but runs at least 1 mile to the east and another 1/2 mile to the west.

If you take a model be sure she has a red dress, a dark blue dress and maybe a silver dress. expect to be covered in POLEN (my shoes looked gold in parts after walking through the part of the field along 287).

I would say the flowers would look good for maybe the next 5 days, some are fading in fact.

They are about 18 inches high and thicker than thieves in many areas.

I am on the road so won't be able to say much more about it, talking to some people in New Mexico and they said that the field is there most years and that this year is a good year for it.

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Thanks for the notice. This kind of information could be useful, if we get enough of it. I take lots of trips across country. Now, getting a model is a different matter!

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The place is really good with a mix of a few other flowers tossed in, if you start looking hard you notice paintbrush, firewell, indian blanket, phlox and others scattered throughout all that YELLOW.

I usually don't go mad about yellow flowers but this had me pull right off the road at the first safe spot and walk around for about an hour. (glad that I brought my RZ67 MF film body with me and some film- I don't think the digital will do it real justice).

We do have some members up in the Amarillo and even Lubbock area that would be worth taking the effort to shoot these flowers.
(I don't have time tonight to post some of the pics but I will try to get a couple up in the morning).

Also made it to Black Mesa in Oklahoma, wish I had the time to hike the 4 hours up to the top and back, the top should have a great photo potential for some landscape work.

THEY ARE IN A SEVERE DROUGHT in the area and most flowers are late blooming and thin except for this one field. The lake up by Black Mesa may have less than 5% of it's capacity-looks like a medium mud puddle vs a nice lake-the rangers in fact are burning brush that has started to grow in the lake!

Gas prices are going stupid. In Trinidad Colorado the cheapest that I have seen in $2.43!