Gary Miller of Philadelphia has installed Papover Rubrum Gigaxiticum (the big red poppy) field. Those are solar-powered garden lights in the center, surrounded by cut and riveted aluminum, on PVC pipes that sway in the wind. Can’t wait to see it glowing in the darkness. 
John Curley (that's me) has been Burning since the relatively late date of 2004, and in 2008 I spent the better part of a month on the playa, documenting the building and burning of Black Rock City in words and pictures. I loved it, and I've been doing it ever since.
I was a newspaper person in a previous life, and I spent many years at the San Francisco Chronicle. At the time I left, in 2007, I was the deputy managing editor in charge of Page One and the news sections of the paper. Since then, I've turned a passion for photography into a second career. I shoot for editorial, commercial and private clients. I've also taught a little bit, including two years at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and a year at San Francisco State University.
I live on the San Mateo coast, just south of San Francisco in California.
Looks like somebody got a little inspiration from the 2006 art project, A Field of Sunflower Robots. :)
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Now I really wish I was there. Ever since I was a child, I’ve dreamed of laying in a red poppy field, a la Wizard of Oz… Opium is such a rare treat… and maybe because my ancestral roots come from near Afghanistan… ah, la Papaver!!
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pretty poppies. cool at night. nice shots
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Wish I could have seen them in person, but I’ll have to wait for Gary to get home and show me his pictures and tell me all about it. So far, my favorite!
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This was really cool to wander through at night!
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Truly interesting blog to read it in my opinion. By the way, why haven’t you you submit this post to social media? This can bring much traffic here.
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just make sure to use energy saving garden lights to help the environment.’::
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Can anyone tell me how these poppies are made?
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