Or what passes for it here, until the vineyards start to turn. It's poison oak -- the western cousin of poison ivy. Seems early this year, maybe because of the drought. I spotted this scene yesterday while hunting dragonflies and came back this morning just as the sun came over the hills to the east, an hour after official sunrise.
Canon 5D Mk II, 24-70 f/2.8 at 27. ISO 400, f/13, 1/100 sec. Tripod. It was dead calm and I shot an HDR sequence, but got better results by adjusting the middle exposure, Shadows and Highlights sliders in LR5. Into PS for removing a few tall thin stalks of grass that I wasn't about to pick out at the scene. And a slight burn bottom and UL. A little bit cropped from both sides and the bottom.
I'd like to try it in slightly softer light but that might kill the reds. Shots made before the sun was over the hill didn't have anything going for them.







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