Normann Szkop took to the skies to capture the beautiful patchwork of colors that are Holland's tulip fields in full bloom. Here are some of the great images he captured. The photos were taken in April of 2011 but we just saw them. You can see the entire set of images on his flickr page.
The fields below are in Anna Paulowna a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. A press release from 2006 says that about 80 percent of the thousands of varieties of tulips come from Holland, which exports more than $700 million worth of the flowers every year — about 3 million per year. Most are exported as bulbs, which are the result of an average of four growth seasons.
Supposedly the bulbs come in a wide variety of colors, pretty much every one except pure blue. See the awesome variety in the images below.
