Easter Landscape

This is a bit of a departure for me. I don't normally find myself sitting outside taking pictures of the landscape. Flowers and trees and rocks are pretty, and I do enjoy them. Certainly having relocated the family back to Robin's home has brought about a new appreciation of the landscape. It's new to me. It's beautiful. It's everywhere. I have time to look, and to shoot.

All that aside, I don't shoot the landscape much. Instead I just enjoy.

If you've seen my business site, you'll see that most of what I do is portraiture. Even my commercial work ends up being portraiture of stuff instead of people, but it's done the same way.

This landscape/scenery stuff is different. The people who shoot it are different too. More solitary.

Then on Easter Sunday I found myself on the side of the road shooting this hill of poppies. The hill got me. It's so vertical it looks like something out of a chinese painting. So I pulled over and took a couple of shots. About eight or so frames into shooting I noticed the deer. I guess she was concerned about what I might be shooting with.

On another day, on another hill, she might have had reason to worry if she were a he. On this Easter she had nothing to worry about. Whereas I was shooting, I was still just there to enjoy. And share.

So here you are.