Aloe Flowers

Aloe Flowers
Yellow aloe blossom

Aloe Flowers. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Fort Bragg, California. July 5, 2015. © Copyright 2015 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Yellow aloe blossom

I’m not the primary flower photographer around here — that would be Patty Emerson Mitchell, with whom I visited the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens earlier this month. For me the flower photography is often a sort of experimental process and a chance to “play” at a sort of photography that I don’t do all that much. It was a sunny day (tough for flower photography!) but there was plenty of shade (good for flower photograph!) though there was a bit of wind (not so good!), which made me look for protected spots (good!) like this one, where I found these spectacular aloe blooms.

(I’m taking a brief break this weekend from posting my recent Sierra Nevada photographs — those will resume on Monday.)


G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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