We diligently watched the weather forecast and eventually found a small opening in the rainy spring weather. With passports and cameras in hand, my friend Ian and I drove to Mount Vernon and the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.
We were not disappointed, except maybe a wee bit when the Sun did not come out for even a few minutes.
But, that made for nice even light, and a bit of early morning dew on many of the buds and blossoms. It is always sensory overload at this event and this year the colours were exceptionally deep and rich. These photos have no colour adjustment on them at all. What you see is what we saw.
It was a photographers dream when we rounded the bend at the first field we came to, a field I had never visited before. Please enlarge this photo with a click and you will agree that is a perfect setting. If you have never been to this spectacle, I would encourage you to go. The festival gets a million visitors every year and most of those are on the weekends. Go on a weekday, early, and you will be OK. Take the La Connor exit on the I5 to Seattle and drive west, following the signs to the tulip fields. It is so worth it.
More photos to come.
1 comment:
Amazing every year! Great photos!
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