A wetter than normal winter, in the Tucson area, provided for a better than average wild flower season, this past spring. I owed myself a break from the usual grind and decided to take a little time to appreciate the bounty. The images below represent only a handful of the many wildflowers that abound in the beautiful Sonoran Desert.
Once upon a time, I captured nature photos with transparency film and used a tripod. These images were shot in digital and much more randomly. The camera was handheld.
About Paul Van Helden
Paul Van Helden is an active, wedding, portrait, event, engagement, real estate, still life, nature and landscape photographer, based in Tucson Arizona. He has worked professionally for close to twenty years. Nature photographer Fred Dodd Jr. introduced him to photography in 1982. Later, Paul studied photography at Dean College and learned to photograph weddings under the tutelage of Craig Roberts Studio, in Franklin, Massachusetts. After working as a freelance wedding specialist for five years, he started his own wedding photography business in Bellingham, Massachusetts in 1995. He succeeded to shoot hundreds of weddings, throughout New England. All the while, years of zoning changes were slowly degrading the quality of life where he lived. After a hard fought campaign, with the local planning board, fell on deaf ears, in 2004 he decided to move to Tucson, where other family members had relocated to, in previous years.
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