On a stroll through a surprisingly snowless landscape yesterday I took surprisingly few photographs. None of those I did take was of particular merit. The sun stayed obstinately behind high cloud. The light was flat, boring and without any sort of contrast. The colours were far from saturated. But the sun, the light and the colourless colours are all excuses of course. The real culprit for average photographs was of course the photographer. At the end of the day I chose the image below for today’s post. Not because it was the best of a mediocre bunch, but perhaps because it reminds me how easy it is to forget to twiddle some of those dials on the camera. Why did I stick to f6.3 instead of opening up the aperture a bit to improve the depth of field impact? Why didn’t I change the angle a bit to make the background more visible and show off some of those mountains. Perhaps if I had stood up instead of getting wet trousers kneeling in the damp grass. Perhaps next time.
