Leon Turnbull Photography

I found these pretty purple (lupine) and orange flowers beside the road at Lower Foresta Falls at Yosemite. I decided to take a photo with the waterfall in the background. I didn’t quite get the focus on the flowers the way I wanted (flower photography is certainly not my specialty), but I think it works fairly well. I did intentionally have the waterfall in the background out of focus, and I accomplished this by using a small aperture setting (f/4) on my camera.

I found another waterfall at Lower Foresta Falls as well. You could see it down the road on a creek that I discovered later was Little Crane Creek (Foresta Falls is on Crane Creek). Little Crane Creek is host to a known waterfall called Little Nellie Falls, and that creek flows down from that waterfall where it joins up with Crane Creek. But it forms another waterfall unexpectedly in the vicinity of Lower Foresta Falls. It is not a big waterfall, but it was worth venturing down the road to see it. That’s when I discovered these flowers just down the road from the bridge at Lower Foresta Falls.