网络上or 朋友传递了一张张惊叹春天野花照片:满山遍野、万紫千红。既使有粗略路线记载，但为找寻那照片Mountains with snow/Grass Plain with flocks/River & Lakes with flowers and beautiful mankind --- ---, 我们开始了追寻照片的野外摄影之旅。 
 

香格里拉是英国小说家詹姆斯•希尔顿1933年的长篇小说《消失的地平线》中虚构的地名。书中描写香格里拉位于喜马拉雅山脉西端一个神秘祥和的山谷，当地的居民信奉藏传佛教。主角Conway及三個夥伴因一次奇怪的劫機事件，進入了神祕的香格里拉。各人在香格里拉的生活，最後逃出香格里拉。香格里拉就像西方版的桃花源（《桃花源記》，陶淵明），也是一個難以找尋、神秘、人們努力追求的理想國度。

P1.  Enter Maintain Pass to 神秘的香格里拉?

P2. Red wild flowers covered whole slop with blue sky; It look like a heaven garden!

P3. A cloud blocked sunshine and covered slope to make  a kind of wild nature beauty;

P4. Asked a cow: how to get Shangri La?

P5. Puppy flower by roadside;

P6. Lupine blooming was along road side. (Lupines羽扇豆（Lupinus）又称鲁冰花，鲁冰花是羽扇豆的音译名称，除此之外的其他意思有：鲁冰花 (1989年电影)，一部由杨立国导演，吴念真编剧的1989年台湾电影。 鲁冰花 (歌曲)，一首主要由曾淑勤演唱的中文歌曲。 鲁冰花 (电视剧)，台湾客家电视台于2006年的连续剧。 新鲁冰花 (2008年电影)，由资深导演陈坤厚执导

P7.A. Wild flower cover slope;

P8.B. Wild flower covered slope. It look like mankind lives in nature heaven;

P9. A tree by the “Lake”, surround with Yellow wild flowers;

P10. Mountains, valley, lake, and grass plain;

P11. A. the valley of grass plain covered with colorful wild flowers.

P12. B. by a mountain, the valley of grass plain;

P13. A. Lake and flowers

P14. B. Lake and flowers

P15. A road at one end is toward Lake/valley/mountains;

P16. A road at another end is toward remote grass plain and mountains;

P17. Asked a moving cloud where is Shangri La?

A outdoor photo pratice and thank everyone to view.

Photo gears: Canon 50D, 18-55mm lens and CPL filter + raw capture with PS CS4 adjustment.
Road to the wilde areas using CA HWY 58:
A. Arvin: CA HWY 58 eastern to HWY 223)
B. Carrizo Plain N.M.: CA HWY 58 western to FWY 101