Throughout April I made three or four visits to two Tulip fields in the Norfolk countryside (UK), this year was apparently a really good year for the Tulips because of all the rain we had here. The rain made shooting a little difficult as I couldn’t always get the conditions I wanted and the window for opportunity is quite small as the flowers are soon de-headed to allow more of the energy to go into the bulbs. Here are a few of my favourite images from the shoots.
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I adore the occasional jarring intruder — the one that doesn’t match the others.
Oftentimes, that’s exactly how I feel in a crowd…like the only one who doesn’t fit in. So I can relate!
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Beautiful pics! Love the colours.
Yes..great pictures.
I live in Norfolk, Virginia USA!
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!
I just posted something today called “walking through a rainbow” … but I think you have out-did me! Hahaha – absolutely stunning photos and brilliant colours! I love photography too! Here’s my “rainbow” post. I hope that you will stop by my blog as well! 🙂 Cheers! – http://wp.me/p2dVcp-AV
I like those oddballs among the masses of color.
These photos are simply beautiful. Are the tulip fields only open during a specific season?
Hi Tiffany,
I believe they are only really at their best for around two weeks in April each year.
Chris
Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos. Nice work. Connie
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Wow, the colors are amazing. These photos are beautiful and the tulip fields are breathtaking. Thanks for sharing and congrats on being freshly pressed!
Ahh my heart…!!
Thank you for sharing.
Stunning color … thank you!
Beautiful! My favorites are of the single tulip amidst a sea of another color. I love a good rebel 😛
Wow, this is unreal! Amazing photos.
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Gosh… all the pictures are just stunning, GREAT JOB!
Absolutely lovely! Fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Magnificently vibrate photographs!
Wow……. It’s gorgeous!! Thanks for the great photos!
Beautiful and amazing photos, I didn’t know there were so many different coloured tulips; and nice complementing them with the tree and blue sky. Stunning. Cheers.
Stunning photography. What a treat to see these images.
Fantastic photos! Absolutely stunning! Thanks!
So beautiful! I will definitely have to make a trip to Norfolk next spring!
Brilliant colors. Such a big difference from where I live. For miles around all you can see are cornfields or wheat fields. And then around town there’s the soybean fields. Lovely photos!
O my god, this is simply amazing. This is the contrary to the big city life. NATURE can be so beautiful.
Gorgeous! We have very beautiful Tulip fields up in Mt Vernon Wa. Sad I didn’t make it up there this year!
Love that white tulip among all the purple!
Wow, wow, wow. Loved these photos. Tulips are such a delight. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing Photos – love the pops of color – thanks for sharing! Congrats on being FP!
Wow, those fields look gorgeous! I’d love to see it in person one day.
very cool. like paradise!
Such beautiful pictures! The tulip festival here in Ottawa is just winding down, but we don’t have fields that big…it’s just stunning!
wooooowwwwwwwwww….woooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww….and i could go on and on forever. What pretty flowers! But the credit also goes to you for taking such AMAZING photos! Congrats for being on Freshly Pressed!
Beautiful photos! made my day!
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Hello! The flowers and the fields look so beautiful, they’re almost untrue… Splendid! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thanks for sharing your lovely photos. Norfolk boy living in Vietnam here, so I think I shall follow your blog so I can see some pictures from home from time to time!
My god…fantastic,…beautiful flowers…really thanks for sharing….
Beautiful array of colours
Beautiful photography, you’ve got a good eye for composition! Stunning!
True ! 🙂
Are there really tulip fields in Norfolk? I’m from Holland and I really miss seeing the tulip fields in spring. I live in Suffolk, so not too far away. Would love to visit them next spring. Pictures are beautiful by the way.
Mind blowing photography, I like those oddballs among the masses of color, Thanks for sharing
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Norfolk has a special place in my heart so it’s great to see it represented so beautifully here! I’ve seen the lavender fields, and now I’m gonna have to try and make it to see these tulips fields 🙂
Amazing and well composed !
wow beautiful flowers…thank you for posting 🙂
Beautiful shots!
I love tulips personally… it’s a shame that their ‘season’ is so short 😦
photo shoot is Amazing especially that red flowers!!
Beautiful landscape!
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The photos are breathtaking! This makes me want to visit Norfolk one day. 🙂
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woowww!! absolutely amazing!! its soooo beautiful!! OMG!!
The odd one out – white among the purple is very beautiful.
gorgeous! love the photos!
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Amazing to think about how these lovely flowers started a trade war.
wow I need to get around….
So beautiful! Really lovely pics. Ah how I love tulips *sigh*
Stunning pictures! Love them!
Amazing pictures – I need to make time to get out there and hone my skills! Thank you for sharing and for the inspiration.
@Jbot: not just a trade war, but a financial bubble too!
These are lovely! Well done.
I like the pictures that focus on one single tulip in a sea of different colored tulips. They stand out more.
These are such bright and beautiful pictures. Have you framed any of these yet?
I have not framed any yet, I must admit even though I sell lots of my images as framed images for various customers I don’t actually have a single picture of mine on any of the walls at home. I must get round to doing some soon.
Chris
I’m the same way. I Think everyone in my family has one of my pictures on their wall but I don’t have any. My favorite is the purple tulips with one white in the middle. That would be really pretty blown up
Scintillating colours!
Beautiful colours. 😉
I love the colours! Lovely pics.
Some gorgeous shots here!
Beautiful photos. I live just outside Norfolk, VA U.S., and it looks nothing like that here. Congrats on being selected for freshly pressed.
I live near Norfolk, Virginia, too. I checked out your blog thinking that it was a photo of Norfolk, VA–the Botanical Gardens, perhaps. Sometimes I forget that we (your American cousins) named our cities after yours. I went to England years ago and was surprised to see the number of names of towns identical to those in Virginia, such as Bedford, York (County), Gloucester, etc. England is such a magical country. I hope to visit again someday. I posted some photos of English castles on my blog.
Must say that I’m confused by your comment. You seem to be writing to me as though I made this post.
Lovely shots. The vertical photo with the white tulip is my favorite. Well done.
Amazing picture, amazing views…really-really beautiful… I hope one day I’ll be there… looking all those with my eyes…(I wish it’s not only just a dream for me) 🙂
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Everyone else has said it!!!!, but BEAUTIFUL!!!
amazing!
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The tulips were my partner’s and I favourite flowers, sadly we have just broken up, and now I have mixed emotions about it. However the pictures are truly wonderful. I’m sure she’ll love it as much as I do =)
Absolutely amazing!
Such gorgeous photos, thanks for sharing! Have a great day!
Much love – Charlie.
Some great photos there. Didn’t know they grew tulips in Norfolk (I live in North Yorkshire).
i have never seen tulip in person :D?
Love all the beautiful pictures.Thanks for sharing.
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wonderful pics.. Thanks for sharing
wow, these photo’s are incredible! congratulations on making Freshly Pressed.
wow..!! nice flowers
These are absolutely amazing! You can see all the love and care that you have put into getting these pictures. Thank you for sharing them with the rest of the world.
Wow, so magical! It looks so stunning in the photos, I can’t imagine what it would have looked like in person! 🙂
That white tulip among the purple ones—what a beautiful contrast!
I love tulips. These photos are incredibly beautiful! 🙂
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this is utterly amazing, want/need to go there
Just love it!!!!!
Your photos seem effortless and are amazingly beautiful!
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Imagine an aerial view of this place.
Congratulations on making Freshly Pressed. As someone who grew up in Bungay I lived in Suffolk and could see Norfolk out of the window. Your photos would be brilliant in any blog, but they take me home in a moment.
The colours remind me of the Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy a few weeks ago which I was just moved to blog about – different media but similar emotions. Good luck with the work.
Beautiful!! Remindes me of the ones here in Netherlands.
So beautiful!
What a gorgeous array of colors.
Beautiful colours! Very eye-catching!
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed!
wow! these colors kinda hurt for the first two seconds! impressive and great landscape too! thank you!
i adore your work 🙂 ! beautiful pictures.
beautiful pictures!
Beautiful photos.
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Amazing pictures of the tulips, so much colour to brighten a day.
so colorful! beautiful shots. great location too haha!
Congratulations making freshly pressed
I have been to Norwich and the outlying countryside and had no idea they grew tulips! Lovely photos!
Wow, those pictures are insane!!!
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Just beautiful! I especially appreciate the lone, white tulip in a field of purple…brave one that tulip.
My family live in Norfolk- where are these fields? Sorry if you have already written it and I have missed it. Gorgeous pictures. I had no idea we had tulip fields. I learned the other day we have vineyards as well, outside London, who would have thought it?!
Awesome shots of the Tulips….your area of the world looks a lot like mine…..I went to see our Tulip fields, close to La Conner, WA the end of April this year….it was my first time to see them (other than photographs) since moving to the Pacific Northwest…I was AMAZED…Thanks for sharing……so Beautiful!!
Nice Photographs and thank you for sharing.
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it’s so beautiful. I love the colour. It makes me happy 🙂
wonderful pics..thanks for sharing…..
Bright, Beautiful n Vibrant Flowers…
Wonderful Fields ! I also want to see them , I love tulips
wow. nice flowers…
The pics just brightened up my gloomy day! Thank you 🙂
stunning scenes…
Beautiful photo .. what a wonderful thing to be so close to such exquisite beauty
Tulips are my favourite flower, perhaps that’s the dutch blood running through my veins 🙂 Lovely photo’s 🙂
Never would have expected this kind of beauty in the USA! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comment, they are actually in Norfolk in the UK and not Norfolk in the US.
Chris
Ooops, my bad…..but still pretty!
Ooops….my bad. Still pretty!
What beautiful colors… looks like a dream! Great shots 😉
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Your photos are stunning. Makes me long for the tulip festival in Holland, Michigan.
Love the kaleidoscope of colors! . . . Congrats on being “Freshly Pressed”!
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Breathtaking – really uplifting!
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Norfolk? Looks like I have plans next April!
love the colours and the contrasts. congrats for being freshly pressed!
This is a phenomenal collection of photographs. I would love to be able to spend a day here!
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Well my garden has one white Tulip showing so this really impressed me….
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This is really pretty. Especially the yellow n pink ones
lovely, lovely, lovely photos… what an amazing sight! those are postcard-like photos.. amazing.
I like the rogue tulips best!
This is my simple paradise for me. I adore Tulips a lot it is my favorite flower. This really made me smile! right before I go to sleep. Thanks! for posting it! Love great pics. Have a good night! =)
Astonishing shots, the colors are so brilliant! Thank you for sharing,
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Amazing! Wish I can find somewhere like this in the States……
Such beautiful photos!! My cousin lives in Norwich, and now I regret not visiting Norfolk while in England last time. Thanks! Haha. Really great job on the photos. 🙂
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Add your A Tulip for your thoughts…
First time ever that I had been to the UK was a trip to Norwich back in 2000. Must have been kind of the “wrong” time of the year as all I could see was plain and sere autumn (marsh?) land. Thanks for adding a new angle to this, I should go back again in the future – during another season! 🙂
breathtaking!!!
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The colors, the symmetry, the composition…
Tulips are one of my favourite flowers, I love that they are both delicate and vibrantly coloured and you have captured the rows of colour beautifully. What a wonderful sight to experience.
Great collections of photographs here. I like the diversity of composition and the great colors that you’ve captured. Well done!
Ah. Memories of Spalding… 🙂 Thank you for posting such beautiful pictures.
Wow, this just looks so beautiful. I just wished i would be there right now. now now. 🙂 Great pictures.
Gorgeous pictures. Whereabouts in Norfolk should we look out for fields of tulips in future years?
Anywhere around the Swaffham area is good. They do sometimes move the fields each year though so it’s just a case of driving around.
They are absolutely beautiful. I was wondering if the still having the fields? i will be on Norfolk in May and I would love to stop by 🙂
Hi sorry Nette, sorry I only just noticed your comments, they were about again this year, but they were much earlier due to the mild winter so they would have been well finished by May. I think they were at there best around the 10th April this year.
Chris
When is the best month to visit tulip field during spring?
April, the Tulips are usually at their best for around a week and the week varies each year. Usually mid to the end of April.
Beautiful images! I’m in Downham Market and looking for a field to capture in the coming days. Do you have any local recommendations?
Hi Chris,
I have only just noticed this post/ They should be about this year again. The fields vary each year in terms of locations but between Swaffham and King’s Lynn there are sometimes some and near the old Iceni village there are usually some.
Cheers Chris. I ended up getting some shots back in April with the help of Mark Eves.
All the best,
CB