Summer Makes Me Smile

Following on from bluebells and poppies, I can't resist uploading this lovely summery image from a shoot in Hertfordshire in April. There were several more images from this shoot, but it would appear that I have put the CD containing the images 'in a safe place.' This does not mean it is lost, just that I can't locate it at the moment - this is a recurrent theme in my life. It will turn up, eventually, in the place I least expect to find it.

'Summer Makes Me Smile'

Image copyright of HertsPhoto

Poppy Fields

Staying with an 'outdoors in nature' theme, enough with the blues, and onto this year's poppy fields. This was a shoot near Mosborough, on the border between Derbyshire and South Yorkshire.

I have worked with the photographer Dave A Davies almost too many times to count, and we have even shot poppy fields before. However, we try never to recreate the same shot twice, so this year I wanted to shoot in the poppies, but create a different atmosphere to our previous efforts. One of our poppy images from a couple of years ago even received a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt, (if you're not a member of dA, try this link instead) so it was going to be hard to create a better version! So, rather than recreate the same feel, we went for something darker and more atmospheric.

This is a series of three images that are intended (I hope) to evoke an emotion. Post processing is by myself and is in three different styles to compliment the 'feel' of each photo.

'Black Widow'

'Catharsis'

'Restoration'

All images copyright of Dave A Davies