The Wildflowers of Bidwell Park
The wildflowers of Bidwell Park offer all of us, locals and visitors, an opportunity to experience the beauty of nature in Chico’s back yard. Many wildflower hikes start as an excursion with hopeful but unknown results. The results usually being fun walks and can be a bit exciting as we all chase a chance to walk up to beauty in bloom on any trail, across the park! Blooms start early each year, vary widely based on winter and late season rainfall and the final bloom isn’t until in June.
A simple goal to share the wildflowers in Bidwell Park is the inspiration for this website. As a goal, it has grown to many layers with the most basic still, sharing the beauty of Upper Bidwell Park. Enjoy the site!
Beyond that, the hope is this site intrigues people to explore Upper Bidwell Park and all its trails with respect for the park and all other visitors. Trash in, trash out! And please don’t pick the wildflowers or trample off trail. Please consider and save the view you have, for others to enjoy!
So, there many opportunities see beautiful wildflowers in Upper Park with the key being what trails to walk in which week of what month. And that varies, too! Be sure to watch for details in the blog posts about Upper Bidwell Park trails! Details will be there.
What’s true no matter the hike, you’ll likely see beauty in Upper Bidwell Park!
Macro Views
Yes, my newest lens (Irix 150 mm) provides me with another wonderful perspective to story tell with these wildflowers. I am excited to share more of these images with you, as I have macro views too!
Discover Bidwell Park Through Curt’s Perspective
Celebrate the vibrant beauty of Upper Bidwell Park through Curtis Pope’s perspective sharing seasonal wildflowers, waterfalls, sunsets, and a blog with photo stories of the main park trails. Each inviting you to explore and appreciate nature’s splendor while respecting the beauty of the park while leaving it as you found it for others to experience.
Curt’s Other Photography Projects
Curtis has three main photography projects. In one fun project, Curt photographs restored shows cars and trucks at meetups and car shows displaying the galleries on the Sleek n Shiny Images website he built.
Curt’s third project focuses on our music community capturing elements of the greater Chico music scene placing an emphasis on the capturing underrepresented groups, women and minorities.
To support this project, he built and maintains, Chico Music Calendar, an event calendar website which showcasing his images while spotlighting upcoming events in our music scene.
Images and galleries supporting this project are on the Chico Music Scene website for public hosted events and Beat Drop Photos for semi-private and private events.
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Just A Lil Bit About the Photographer
All website images are from the eye of Chico native, Billy Curtis Pope Jr. He ‘goes by’ Curt, or Salsa, if you’ve gamed with him! (He makes a hand-chopped salsa from the Park Cafe recipe! IFKYK. Yum!) Curt likes to step a bit closer to the subject with his photography projects. And this true for many images shared on this site capturing the beauty around us in Upper Bidwell Park.
A Message from Curt
Hey all! Yes, I hope you enjoy these images I have captured in Upper Bidwell Park. While there are amazing wildflowers in many spaces and places across our county, project is a long term focus on our local park.
With my images, I goal to capture something more than just a moment in time. I often focus on single elements in busy hoping to capture your eye. By using a short depth of field, I work to create a piece of art with each image or at least inspire one!
Upcoming on the website blog page are posts detailing all of the main park trails with wildflower images to showcase the proximity to trails. I hope to show how accessible these beautiful flowers are as I offer hints of where and when to locate these beauties! Also included will be the every-so-occasional seasonal waterfall in Upper Bidwell Park. Oh, and I love sunsets, so they may show up, too!