open gardens

Wow what a day that was of taking photographs. In my mind I practiced what I would take, how I would take them, what sort of light I would hope for. I got my self into a bit of a flap. Once I did calm down though, things seemed to flow ok. I think the biggest pressure is hoping that the person who has spent years getting their garden to such a condition would be happy with what I have taken.

I decided through long debate with myself (if you can imagine someone actually discussing things with themself and a bemused looking labrador that was me-hmm) to photograph sections of the garden. As much as i would have loved to produce a photograph of the whole garden, time and the fact people would always be in shot it wouldn't have been good. Besides they get to see that view three hundred and sixty five days a year (including bank holidays) so the chance to show them something they may not always spot was quite interesting.

300 photographs later a tiring shoot was completed. Interestingly, well to me anyways i decided to nor start to edit/process them straight away. Why I here you ask. Well because I was tired and frustrated at the things that went wrong I felt that this would corrupt my view of the photos, I would be overly harsh with myself.

I came back to them a week later, took my time at first but soon developed a rhythm, that being I know what looked good on the previous photographs, lets try that first here. (I may in a soon to be revealed entry talk some more about this) I was also still quite brutal with the photos, if there wasn't anything that sparked me then it went.

The end results of all this work are what you see here. I haven't included all of them but these are the best of the best ones if you understand me. As always I am interested in your comments.