Sunflowers at McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area

McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolesville, Maryland is my favorite place to photograph sunflowers every summer. Montgomery County plants several fields of sunflowers – and for a brief time in either July or August – the fields are in full bloom – with hundreds of photographers and artists enjoying the beautiful flowers.

This year – the sunflowers bloomed a little early – peak started fourth of July weekend and was pretty much done in the main field a week later. I spent a couple of hours photographing with my new Sony a6000 camera one morning. The sunflowers gave me a chance to work with the Sony 30mm macro lens on the a6000. Turns out that once I had the camera and lens on my tripod – it’s a great combination for close-up photos of sunflowers. Most of the photos I took that morning were taken with the 30mm macro lens.

Here are a few of my photos showing the wonderful details in the blooming sunflowers.

Since I just took these photos a few days ago, I haven’t had a chance to make any of them available as prints yet. I do have several sunflower photos taken in previous years available as matted prints and as gallery wrapped canvases on my website at http://beautifulflowerpictures.com/collection/asters/sunflowers/

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Sunflowers at McKee Beshers Wildlife Management Area – 2015