Light in the Garden
October 24, 2020
Welcome to my first blog post and I hope you enjoy your visit. I thought it might be interesting to write about how even under the present pandemic crisis a garden can be an incredible place for the photographer to explore. The dappled soft light and shadows on a warm summers day revealing subtle compositions. Here a Marmalade Hoverfly alights in a small spotlight on a foxglove. Interesting how I had not really spotted this light before but the pandemic has hopefully taught us some patience and observation skills within a small but very important environment like our gardens, however small or large they may be. Even if you don’t have access to a garden there should be a local park nearby to explore and find some light and subjects.
The beautiful warm settled weather in spring also allowed me to photograph one of the most hyperactive bee species the Red Mason Bee. Blink and they are gone before you can even press the shutter button, but again patience and observation in behaviour can eventually give you an image. The flowering apple tree became a real honey pot for the bees this year and I would just sit in a chair with a nice cuppa and have fun for a few hours trying and mostly failing to capture whatever I could before the shadows would cover the tree and the bees would disappear following the sun into a neighbours garden.
I hope this might give you some ideas for your own garden or park to go and explore and photograph some nature. Take care and catch you in my next blog.