A click bait title for this blog which is most likely harsh, but I always struggle for decent shots, or something a little more interesting than a single snowdrop ‘snap’.
We visited our favourite snowdrop location in Spixworth which always has the lure of homemade cake and a cup of tea at the church as a great pre-walk energy boost.
I had my 105mm macro prime on my Z7 for this visit and as always, the best advice is to practice, and practice more.
Unsurprisingly, it was straight in with a flower portrait with the challenge of firstly, manoeuvring one’s ageing carcass low down on the ground, and secondly, trying to focus with appropriate depth of field.
Each year, I am determined to get some decent snowdrop images but usually find myself disappointed. I tried some shots of groups snowdrops, and I quite like the one below.
To push the creativity a bit more, I’ve thrown together a triptych which I think is stronger still.
Unsurprisingly, Gill had a blog on photographing snowdrops just after I took these photos and there were some great tips at photographing from distance, and wise advice about trying to capture a feeling rather than a place.
I probably wouldn’t think to try that if it weren’t for being an avid reader of Gill Moon’s blogs where she regularly encourages us to try a diptych or triptych when we’ve got singular images that may not be that strong as a set of images in a collage.
This made me want to go back and have another try but we discovered the following week that the next walk was on a different day to what we assumed and other family commitments meant we didn’t make it.
The walk is on private land so we would not have wandered around without it being an official snowdrop walk and paying our contributions into the church fundraising.
Despite missing a second trip to shoot the snowdrops, I’ve got some new ideas and things to try next time plus the motivational mindset to consider a collage of images, which I can think about for every post shoot image review, not just snowdrops.
Onwards and upwards…