Evanescent Light : Carrizo Plains

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Carrizo Plain National Monument

The 'superbloom' of 2019

Rosette of baby blue eyes : Soda Lake overlook, Carrizo Plain

Our Xterra below the Temblor Hills : Carrizo Plain

Superblooms bring out the large-format photographers:
Carrizo Plain

Artists pallette :
Temblor hills, Carrizo Plain

Desert candles :
Carrizo Plain

California poppies :
Carrizo Plain

Desert candle and phacelia : Carrizo Plain

Road into a Temblor Range canyon #1: Carrizo Plain

Road into a Temblor Range canyon #2: Carrizo Plain

Flowers in the Temblor hills above the desolation of the Midway sunset oilfield

Road along the crest of the Temblor Range :
Carrizo Plain

Temblor Range panorama across Carrizo Plain

Superbloom along the Temblor Range : Carrizo Plain

American badger in the Temblor hills : Carrizo Plain

Kira in a goldfield : Carrizo Plain

Fiddleheads against the sky :
Carrizo Plain

Fiddleheads on black :
Carrizo Plain

Lupine agaist goldfield :
Carrizo Plain

Last light on fiddleheads: Carrizo Plain

Catching the last sunlight : Carrizo Plain

Fenceline : Carrizo Plain

Converging lines : Carrizo Plain

Golden path : Carrizo Plain

Purple path : Carrizo Plain

Yellow diagonal with people : Carrizo Plain

Metal disk : Carrizo Plain

Bush lupine : Carrizo Plain

Water tank high in a Temblor canyon : Carrizo Plain

Blue lupine : Carrizo Plain

Curving fence : Carrizo Plain

Hillside superbloom : Carrizo Plain

Water tank and road into the Temblor hills : Carrizo Plain Carrizo Plain

Three water tanks : Elkhorn Plain, Carrizo Plain

Cattle ramp : Elkhorn Plain, Carrizo Plain

Purple panorama at the southern end of the Elkhorn Plain : Carrizo Plain

Purple carpet and abandoned windmill : Carrizo Plain

Red leaves : Carrizo Plain

Purple flower and bud : Carrizo Plain

Fiddlehead : Carrizo Plain

Yellow and white flower: Carrizo Plain

Orange flowers in green leaves : Carrizo Plain

Desert candle :
Carrizo Plain

California goldfields : Carrizo Plain

Tidytips among California goldfields : Carrizo Plain

Tansy pahacelia on white :Carrizo Plain

Purple flowers on black : Carrizo Plain

Temblor superbloom #1 : Carrizo Plain

Temblor superbloom #1 : Carrizo Plain

Sinuous fence line : Carrizo Plain

Power line over the Temblors : Carrizo Plain

Layers : Carrizo Plain and the Elkhorn escarpment (San Andreas fault)

Layers : shadows on Elkhorn plain goldfields

Layers of gold, fenceline, yellow, green, orange: Elkhorn plain

Trees - only at higher elevations in the Temblor Range and Caliente mountains

Backlit sunset with dead tree : Caliente Mountains

Dead tree on yellow: Caliente Mountains

Lone tree with distant Tehachapi mountains: Temblor Range

Lone tree against yellow and orange : Temblor Range

Tree on the Temblor Range ridge

Tree by highway 58

Tree above Carrizo Plain

Painted Hills : Temblor Mountains

Painted canyon : Carrizo Plain

Diagonal stripes of color : Temblor Range

Carrizo Plain superbloom : View over the Temblor hills to the Tehachapi Mountains

The 'superbloom' of 2017

Fiddlenecks below a sunset over Caliente Mountain : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Last of the superbloom high in the Temblor Range :
Carrizo Plain National Monument

Grasses by Soda Lake :
Carrizo Plain National Monument

White flowers by Soda Lake overlook :
Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sunset tree sillhouette : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Dawn sunstar through tree : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Low clouds on the Caliente Ridge : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Tree in mist : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Superbloom! : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Backlit desert candles : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Yellow ridges : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Desert candles : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Diagonal color swatches : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Flower patterns : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Figures on an artist's pallette: Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Hillside daisies : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Yellow and purple : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Flower patterns : Temblor Range, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Dead tree and wildflower colors along the southern ridge of the Caliente mountains: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Poppies and acres of yellow : Carrizo Plain

Storm clouds over flower-covered Caliente mountains: Carrzio Plain

God rays over flower-covered Caliente mountains: Carrizo Plain

Sun star over over flower-covered Caliente mountains: Carrizo Plain

Water tank and cloud patterns over Elkhorn Plain: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Storm light below the Temblor Hills : Carrizo Plain National Monument

Reflections of flower-draped Temblor Hills in flooded Sda Lake: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Storm clouds over Carrizo Plain

Carpet of purple over Elkhorn Plain : Carrizo Plain

Water tank and purple carpet : Carrizo Plain

Fluffy clouds over yellow striated hillsides : Elkhorn Pass, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sunset over yellow carpet of daisies: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sunrise over yellow carpet of daisies: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Pastel light before sunrise: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Road through the daisies: Carrizo Plain National Monument

First light on Caliente Mountain: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Road up the hillside through daisies to our favorite campsite: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Some macro photos taken with my 100-400 lens.

Spikes: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Beetle on daisies: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Dragonfly: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Purple carpet in Elkhorn Plain: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Eroded ridgeline and diagonal stripes of yellow flowers: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Tree stump among carpet of daisies: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Road to the yellow carpet: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Yellow daisied everywhere!: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Daisies outlining rock anticline: Carrizo Plain National Monument

View from the top of Elkhorn grade road: Carrizo Plain National Monument

Panorama looking down onto yellow abstract patterns on the plain: Carrizo Plain National Monument

First sunlight grazing patches of yellow on the Carrizo Plain.

Wildflowers with sunstar tree high in the Caliente Range; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Fogbank and yellow carpeting at sunrise; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sunrise view over the Carrizo Plain from the Caliente Range; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Pre-dawn light on wildflowers looking North over Carrizo Plain National Monument

Wildflower-carpeted track along the ridge of the Caliente Range; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Wildflowers and dead tree sillhouette against dawn sky; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Wildflowers on cracked mud patterns; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Rock and wildflower patterns; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Lone tree against the sky; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Two trees and wildflower patch; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Lone tree against wildflower-carpeted hillside; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Carrizo plain view with wildflowers and low-lying fog; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Hay bale loaders in clearing fog; Travers Ranch, Carrizo Plain National Monument

Farm equipment at Travers Ranch with mistbow; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Temblor panorama with yellow wildflowers: Carrizo Plain N.M .
(click on image to download ~50 Mpixel stitched panorama)

Purple swath of wildflowers before yellow-painted Temblor hills: Carrizo Plain N.M.
(click on image to download ~50 Mpixel stitched panorama)

Carrizo Plainis still beautiful even when there is no superbloom

Moonrise at sunset over the Carrizo Plain

Caliente badlands tapestry; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Jeep in the Caliente badlands; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Burnt tree and view across to the Temblor range;
Carrizo Plain National Monument

Lupins and red hill; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Road across the Caliente badlands; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Target practice on old water tank; Carrizo Plain National Monument

The road to our favorite campsite; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sinuous road; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Moonrise over the Temblor Hills and field of yellow; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Sunset light behind trees; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Twisted dead tree with sunset backlight; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Soda dry lake panorama; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Walkers on Soda dry lake; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Salt spider on Soda dry lake; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Dust devil and sand cone; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Tumbleweed on the salt flat; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Yellow shoreline and dust devils - Soda dry lake; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Walkers on Soda dry lake with dust devils; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Blowing salt on Soda dry lake; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Tree sillhouetted against pre-dawn fog over the plain; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Wildflowers beginning to appear at high elevation; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Fog bank rolling ovewr the foothills; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Fog banks just before the rising sun cleared the mountains; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Whisps of fog creeping up the mountainside; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Tree catching the first sunlight with fog below on the plain; Carrizo Plain National Monument

Hillside made an island by fogbank; Carrizo Plain National Monument

View from Soda Lake overlook: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Soda Lakebed and clouds: Carrizo Plains N.M.

View over Carrizo Plains N.M. descending from Carrizo Mountains

Earthshadow at dawn over the Carrizo hills: Carrizo Plain N.M.

Yellow wildflowers in the Temblor Range: Carrizo Plain N.M.

First light on the Carrizo hills with wildflowers in foreground: Carrizo Plain N.M.

Yellow swaths of wildflowers among the Carrizo hills: Carrizo Plain N.M.

Yellow wildflowers before monochrome mountains: Carrizo Plain N.M.

Red hills, yellow and purple wildflowers: Carrizo Plain N.M.

Abandoned water tank under early sunset sky: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Fenceline at sunset: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Abandoned water tank under late sunset sky:Carrizo Plains N.M.

Fog over the Central Valley from Carrizo Plains N.M.

View across Carrizo Plains to the Temblor Hills

Relic from when the Plains were farmed: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Road across Carrizo Plainsto the Temblor Hills

Poppies: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Pictographs at Painted Rock: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Flowers and duststorm: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Sinusoidal trail and fog: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Central Valley fog below foothills: Carrizo Plains N.M.

Road descending to Carrizo Plain

Gravesite of Mary Morris below Earthshadow: Carrizo Plains N.M.
(The BLM have errected an unsightly barrier around the cemetary fence - I Photoshopped it out in this image)

A dense landscape of nodding donkeys along the Eastern backroad to Carrizo Plains N.M.

Updated 03/19/2022

IanParker
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University of California,
Irvine, CA 92717-4550

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