If you go down to the woods today
Of course, not strictly true. It is now a week or so since the bluebells were at their best, but there have been other things to write about in my weekly photographic diary.
Certainly, it you were looking for some great pictures of real bluebells, then this week’s blog may also be a disappointment.
To tell the truth (not what I am most noted for) when confronted by a massive carpet of these plants, I am always at something of a loss to know where to point the camera.
Should I isolate a single plant and put it in focus against a mass of its mates blurred in the background, or should I put a wide-angle lens on and do a sweeping landscape.
No matter how long I stand and stare at them, I find my compositions lack something and they in no way represent what I have been looking at.
So what I have tried to do is present a mixture of colourful ideas.
In some I try to show the carpet of flowers.
One is even one of my 360 degree panoramas – which I hoped might work – although on reflection I’m not sure it has.
Apart from the panorama they have all been shot in camera and apart from cropping, a little colour balancing, none was devised in Photoshop or similar software.
It’s all down to my unsteady hand and gentle reflection of the scene.
A great gift is “gentle reflection”, especially at the weekend.
Hope yours is good