Of all the wildflowers I love the poppies the most. It is not always like this. I started noticing the blooming red poppies on the way to the sea. It's impossible not to see them, whether they're little bushes or whole fields. Red spots in the wheat fields.
As time passed, I connected the annual seaside holiday and the poppies I saw while driving to my destination.
The recent trip to the sea, which happened last week, was full of poppies! I took hundreds of pictures but not of the road because I couldn't take pictures while driving the car. I was lucky enough to stay in a hotel in the middle of a golf course.
The playing fields are carefully landscaped with well-watered and regularly mowed grass. No flowers have a place there but from the edge of the fields are meadows full of plants and wild flowers. Wild flora. For my delight and pleasure, there are poppies, from single plants to multi-flowered bushes. It was my joy to photograph them.
I don't know how to approach these shy and fragile flowers, I don't know how to photograph them. I'm not a fan of close-up photos, I'm not a fan of macro photography. I can't handle red either...
I'm trying to step back and get more general shots.
From here on I feel better.
This one I like even more, with the poppies "floating" in a sea of green and the blue sea and sky in the background.
I've tried another approach that I think worked better for me but I'm still far from the real photos of the poppies, as seen in this post, Poppy Flower Photography, by our colleague 
The photos below are my favorites, they are photos taken in a hurry to help me with the story I intended to tell about where I spent my most recent short holiday.
I don't know what to say about these wonderful meadows. Perhaps I should describe each flower in part and tell how the fragrance of the vegetation mingles with the smell of the salty seawater.
I am neither a writer nor a photographer but because I try to be both, I think I am more of a photographer than a writer and that is why I use so many photos in my posts. As they say that a photo is worth a thousand words I try to replace the words I miss.
As I said I shoot what I see around me at speed without having a plan or preparing anything, often I don't even have time to frame it properly (this can be considered an excuse). I'm trying to say that even I have a few elaborate shots where I know what I want to achieve.
I make this confession because I want to point out that this photo, the first one in the post, is different.
I specifically looked for the red flower to have a yellow background. So far I have managed to take such photos only by chance. This time I knew what I wanted to do and I wanted to brag about it because I liked what it turned out. I mention this because you are likely to think it was not my choice and I would have been disappointed by it…