Signs of life

Out for my constitutional walk yesterday lunchtime, I came across a veritable carpet of snowdrops in the churchyard. This is the time of year that they burst forth to lighten our dull winter lives. A local country house has vast areas of them, and it opens to the public for snowdrop addicts in February.

This begs the question: How to make an interesting picture of snowdops? What you need is a different and arresting angle. So: Here we have a ground level shot with narrow depth of field using my trusty 70-300mm lens.





Here is a slightly better shot in my optinion, because it includes some context to place the subject. Context is usually a good thing in a picture.


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