Photographing In the Wind

What do you do? Do you pack up and go to the pub or do you use the wind and make images that show movement? Or if it is a wildflower you are photographing - do you shelter it or constrain it?
Answer - a combination of these answers can be used. In many cases it depends on the subject.

Landscapes
An atmospheric shot can show trees leaning over and leaves being blown around. Choose your shutter speed carefully - too fast and it doesn't look like it is moving at all and too slow and it will be too blurry. This is a shot where you would have to experiment with the settings.

Flowers
Many native flowers are on thin stems and move with the slightest breeze. If you start early in the morning the air is usually still. If the flower starts moving you focus on the rest position of the flower and wait till the wind stops again. Have a high shutter speed. In slight breezes you can use skewers and pegs to hold the stem still or try and shield the wind with your reflector.

Take a Movie 
Another alternative with flowers or larger subjects if the wind is too high, is to take a short movie of it. Even if your subject goes in and out of focus as it moves, the eye compensates for it and the movie can be quite watchable. Sometimes it can be even more instructive as it shows how things move in the wind, or if it is a creature - how it manages it.

Keep your thinking hat on and step outside the round.