Amazing Collection: Desert Wildflower Reports for Southern California

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<img alt="First Blooms" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="480" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55448" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalFirstBlooms.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">The cracked Colorado Desert doesn’t usually provide conditions favorable for blooming</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> flowers, but every now and again, deserts do see rainfall. When that happens, </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">certain wildflowers (such as the bee plant and scorpionweed) creep up through the</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> cracks and decorate the landscape for a mere few days before wilting and dying in a </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">process that can last for several years. Capturing these simultaneously fleeting yet </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">enduring spectacles of nature is photographer Guy Tal.</span></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Rare Beauty" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="480" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55454" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalRareBeauty.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /><br />
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Vortex" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55575" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalSpringVortex.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">While the subject matter, composition, and lighting of these photographs are certainly </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">noteworthy on their own, further examination into the man behind the camera reveals </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">that he’s more of a philosopher than a photographer.</span></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Survivor" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55577" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalSurvivor.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Cracks In Ground" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55579" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalTheWaitIsOver.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Seasonal Effect" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="480" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55581" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalSeasonalEffect.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">“It’s a strange business I’m in; one often misunderstood. There’s no real word for what I do</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> and maybe it’s time to put a name to it. My job is to be inspired. I make my living conveying</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> the inspiration I find to others, in various ways. I photograph, I write, I teach, I interact.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> What does that make me? My photography is not about photographs; my writing is not</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> about words; my teaching is not about facts; and my interactions are not about being </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">social. There’s a higher purpose – the experience. Am I an experiencer?”</span></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Skull" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55584" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalSkull.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Early Purples" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55586" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalEarlyPurples.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Swan Song" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="427" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55588" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalSwanSong.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">Tal further explains that he doesn’t make things for a living; he lives for a living.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> And how does one truly “live”, in the eyes of Guy Tal? By fully immersing oneself into</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> whatever stimulus the Earth conjures up, allowing your senses to be sparked, and </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">capturing nuggets of beauty – in both words and images – along the way. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;">Tal’s writing style evokes all of that; just a small paragraph about an autumn</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> morning ritual from his website leads us into a snapshot of his world -where every</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> sense is able to find something to linger on.</span></div>
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<img alt="Desert Wildflowers Morning" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55590" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalPerfectMorning.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Alluvial Rug" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyTalAlluvialRug.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></div>
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<img alt="Streaming Color" class="yiv4518406789ygrps-yiv-565331993" height="426" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406353905645_55593" src="http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GuyStreamingColor.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /><br />
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Desert Wildflowers Breathe Life Into The Desolate The cracked Colorado Desert doesn’t usually provide conditions favorable for ...