Random Picture of the Week #104: A Trail of Bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area, Spicewood, Texas

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This week’s random of images of the week is a photo I took with a photographer friend back in April 2015 during our Texas Hill Country and West Texas Rural Explore Road Trip. The picture is an automotive trail of Bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area Spicewood, Texas.

A Trail of Bluebonnets at Muleshoe Bend, Texas

Every year people travel to Texas Hill Country during the spring wild flower season. One of the popular places to visit is Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area Spicewood, Texas. Muleshoe Recreation Area is a 654-acre park that has 9.8 miles of trails with campsite options so can watch the stars at night. During wild flower season most of the non wooded areas are covered in the wildflowers.

Over the last few years, Muleshoe Bend hasn’t been covered with Bluebonnets but in 2015 the entire state had a good year. So during our trip, we decided to stay the night at Muleshoe Bend and take advantage of the park at sunrise. We arrived at the park around 3 am in the morning so we didn’t see the landscape until morning. When we woke up that morning we woke to see a sea of Bluebonnets covering most of the park.

With last year’s rain and perfect temperatures, we had another great year of Bluebonnets. But due to my wife and my schedule we couldn’t make it out to Muleshoe Bend Recreation Area. So in honor of not getting out their this year as we had hoped, here an image from April 2015.

About the Image

The images were shot by hand one morning around sunrise on a gloomy day with my Sony Nex-3N and a Sony SEL16F28 16mm f/2.8 lens. I then edited the images in Adobe Lightroom. Next, I post processed them with Topaz Clarity to add texture, brighten, and bring out the details in the images. Then I removed the dust spots. Finally, I used Topaz DeNoise to remove the noise from the images.