Ari Takes Pictures » tulipfestival http://www.aribrownest.com Photography and Ranting - I dish it out, you eat it up. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:57:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Washington Does Tulips http://www.aribrownest.com/photos/skagit-valley-tulips-2009/ http://www.aribrownest.com/photos/skagit-valley-tulips-2009/#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:19:12 +0000 kap0w http://www.aribrownest.com/?p=1847 Washington Does Tulips is a post from: Ari Takes Pictures

]]> I don’t really associate Washington and Tulips, but I guess someone does.  Every year in April, a bunch of farmers band together to make the Skagit Valley outside of Mount Vernon worthy of the name “Tulip Festival”.  I can’t say it is a *ton* of fun.  I can say that every 5 years or so, it is worth going and the fields are pretty darn cool to look at.

Skagit Valley Tulips

Camera & Lens   Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT (Canon) & 24.0-105.0 mm     Shutter:   1/200 s
Creation Date:   2009:04:25 09:35:22     Aperture:   f/10.0
Artist:   Ari Brown     ISO:   200
Exposure Mode:   Normal program     Focal Length:   28 mm

I suppose my problem with the “festival” is that it is really a group of totally independant farms that allow you to traipse around a bit, possibly buy some popcorn or tulip postcards and charge you four or five bucks to park.  I’m not totally knocking it though.  This picture comes from a farm that proclaims itself as “Tulip Town”.  They grow tulips of every color and looking out over all of the rows, I can’t really think of anything else like it.

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