I’ve called this blog post a challenge because it is. I struggle to get what I think are really good flower pictures but it’s always fun to try.
Two different favourite locations for bluebells are a local church walk, good for both snowdrop season and bluebells, and Blickling Estate.
The church one is good because we start by having a cup of tea and a fantastic homemade cake in the church before the walk.
Church Bluebells
We wandered through a small wood nearest the church and onward alongside a field and towards the first of two larger woodland areas full of bluebells.
I found this scene attractive with bluebells in the foreground, a gap in the hedge from which brighter lights was visible as well as a sprinkler watering the field.
I tried to ‘frame” the shot using the overhanging branches.
I’m also continuing my quest to try different orientations when shooting to aid trying to get the right composition in-camera. As you can see above, this shot is a 1:1.
I was trying to apply what I’ve been learning from Gill Moon’s blog, trying some different angles, wider apertures and triptychs.
I was enjoying forcing myself to shoot more throughtful captures but the usual challenges of manoeuvring one’s carcass down low, focus and aperture being accurate and all handheld.
I had brought my 105mm macro so was also restricted to that focal length.
As we walked from the bluebell wood to the one the other side of a field, I really liked the scene across the field of a sprinkler watering the field.
I liked this shot so much, I tried a mono version and posted it online.
As we made our way into the other wood, I found myself struggling again, but I did bag this half-decent shot of wild garlic.
About Wild Garlic
Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows’s leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear’s garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae.
It is native to Eurasia, where it grows in moist woodland. It is a wild relative of onion and garlic, all belonging to the same genus, Allium.
Blickling Bluebells
I had missed a visit here with my photography buddies so Kathryn and I called by one evening after work.
There was very pleasant evening sunlight shining through the trees, and I was once again shooting handheld and with the 105mm macro lens again.
I was quite pleased with the shots below.
And that wraps up my bluebell challenge for 2025.
Not too shabby really, and possibly a little improvement but also some shots I wasn’t expecting.
Until next year.
Onwards and upwards…