Near the Marin-Sonoma County line, not far from the Tomales Bay oyster town of Marshall, California, the wildflowers dotted the green meadows in bucolic profusion. I shot this image using a tripod, with eight exposures—bracketing the shuttter speed to capture the full dynamic range in the scene from light to dark. In Photoshop I used layers and masking to create this composite HDR image by hand.