Go With The Flow / Forget The Trends

Learn to trust your own flow. I made this image by heading out before the sun to walk a local trail for a few hours before work. I admit it I’m a morning person, always have been. The day is fresh, light is prime, mind purge through the miracle of dreams. No preconceived ideas or objectives, just time to enjoy the light of a new day and see what I might find.
Wild grass and fresh flowers a couple of my favorite subjects, anytime. Bathed in the warm morning light a small patch of native Wild Four O’ Clock flowers, tall fresh native grass and the base of a large sandstone boulder casting a forbidding dark shadow. The boulder and the shadow were problematic, only if I let them be. So I did just that … I let them be. I went with the flow and that flow was “the light” and how it fell on my subjects. The boulder was non important, so I excluded it, shadow was just a presence within my field of view. It was unavoidable at best all I could do is minimize it. I maneuvered the camera mounted tripod to maximize the characteristic of the tall grass. While at the same time I shielded and framed the wild four o’ clock flowers while minimizing the dark shadow. I knew this composition was a little un-conventional but I was in an experimental mode, and I liked what I saw, … Click