Photography - 1 Plant and Red Poppies

Hi there,

I am not a big fan of floral shots, I think that most of them look the same, and there are too many of those pictures anyway. Eventually you get bored looking at them. That's why I am trying to take those shots in a different way.

A rainy day is such a pleasure for me, I like the smell, the atmosphere, the clouds in the sky... everything looks more romantic and special, even the common things. I like to grab the camera and capture the obvious things who looks majestic (after the rain).

One rainy day, I was walking with a friend, we were trying to find some things to capture, and we couldn't find something special. but then... suddenly, we've noticed a small plant, not a very special one, but the rain drops on its leaves looked like pearls, or diamonds - now, that is majestic!

The same day, we haven't found much things to capture, it was a lovely day but without many results, besides of some flowers here and there. I looked at those plain red poppies, and thought to myself, how can I make them more interesting, more artistic? I started to shoot them from different angles, but they still were very simple and boring. Just before I left the place frustrated, I decided to disable the focus, and to shoot them in a blurry mode.  When I got home and looked at the photo, I liked the result, It was like a painting, a hint of red flowers in a green creamy ocean. 

Weeks later... the sun was shinning, we went to visit the same area, and discovered a huge field of poppies! it was marvelous, everywhere we looked we saw that red ocean, that was the nature at its glory. We thought that we've arrived there pretty early, and we would be the only people there, but I guess we were wrong...

That specific beautiful weekend day, the beautiful scenery and all the happy people were captured in that happy, and optimistic photo.

This photo reminds me that life is beautiful, you just have to look around, and to appreciate the little things. 

That's it for now, thank you for visiting my blog.

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