The first thing to catch my eye was the light…..the colour, the deep, vibrant red of the setting sun. I picked up my camera and stepped out into the garden.
As I framed the shot the silhouette of the tree drew me to it, the contrast of the black in front of the red, the spindly shapes of the bare branches over the soft, flowing bands of clouds.
Then as I looked the second tree came into my field of attention, its shape, and its soft haziness. It looked to me like it had elements of the clouds behind it and the tree in the foreground, but melded both into something unique in itself – less spiky than the foreground tree, and less black too, but more angular and edgy than the clouds and blacker than them.
Looks good.
Click!
Not a typical sunset photo. Not a typical tree photo either. It draws me in…..
What goes through your mind in those moments leading up to “click!”?
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