There was one flower that was easy to identify. We have paintbrushes in Texas. This immature plant hasn’t started to show its true colors, but the basic shape of the petals gives it away.
The Indian Paintbrush is the State Flower for Wyoming.
As a note for Amateur Photographers; these flowers are an example of limitations the environment may place on you. We were on a boardwalk around the Old Faithful Geyser. You can’t step off the boardwalk, and it’s a little hard to lay down with other tourists walking along.
As usual, you never have the right lens on the camera. I had my shorter lens (35-80mm), mostly for scenery and wider angle shots. The longer lens (80-200mm) might have let me get “closer” to the plants even though I was on the boardwalk.
My thinking had been the short lens for close-ups and the long lens for wildlife off in the distance. I ended up using the long lens more than I had expected.
Just as a gratuitus addition, here’s a Texas Paintbrush for comparison.
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