I go to the tulip fields often in the spring. The early and late light with moody clouds can be pretty awesome.
Last year I visited 8 times, and because there are so many images of the same things they tend to blur…
I had occasion to look in folder from the last years Tulip Festival and found these beauties.
Made 16 visits to the tulips last spring, still haven’t really inspected all the images yet. Here’s one from a day I went rainbow hunting… unsuccessfully.
I went to the tulip and daffodil fields often this year.
Daffodils, Morning Light
Eighteen times to be precise.
Yellow Tulips and a Smile
A new record for visits in one year.
Backlighting, my favorite
The Daffodils started in February.
Stars!
As of today, April 17, the tulips are done.
Beheading
Finished, kaput.
Pink River
Maximus
I am not sorry, I’m relieved.
Tulip Selfie
My Tulip Goal for this year was two-fold: to get an image of a huge double rainbow directly over the blazing tulip fields AND to somehow capture an image of dark skies over the tulips being ripped asunder by searing bolts of lightning.
Converging
The Barn
Mud
Pinks
I failed miserably on both of these counts.
MUD!
All of these image, and many more, are for sale as fine art prints as well as Canvas Wrapped Prints. Here is the place to view and buy!
Love the back lit scene
Reflection
Water in the rows
Loner
I have captured many images of tulips here in Skagit Valley. I generally make more than a dozen trips each year to the tulip fields in April.
This is one of my favorite images.
Red Tulips in Skagit Valley
There are 3 good reasons that I take so many pictures of the Tulip Festival each year:
1. Tulips are incredibly colorful!
2. They are very close by!
3. The mountains are still covered with snow!
So, here is a sampling of my favorite images of the Tulips (and Daffodils!) from this year!
Here is the cover of the March-April Northwest Travel Magazine, featuring one of my favorite tulip images…
Here is my original image…
Next months issue will feature another cover shot I took, in the North Cascades National Park. Here is the image.
These images were taken at sunrise, on March 13th, 2014!
Skagit Valley is famous for tulips in the spring. And daffodils! Each year the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival harkens the arrival of spring to the Pacific Northwest.
There are hundreds of acres of tulips and daffodils. If you want to visit, here is a link to the Bloom Map.
Daffodils bloom first, there three large fields alight now, with more to come. The arrival of the tulips generally happens in the first week of April, but it always depends on how many sunny days we get!
These two images are from 2012, I was reviewing folders for a submission and found these two backlit shots.
And some Daffodil shots with nice lighting. 
All four are early morning shots. You just can’t beat the sky, and details from light at a low angle.
I am blessed, being so close to the Skagit Valley tulip fields (not to mention the North Cascades and a whole host of other marvelous places…)
I am reviewing more than 40 photo shoots from this year, eight of which were visits to the flower fields. Here is a sampling of this years best images. 
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter 