I’ve got quite a few wood anemone pictures, some of them I’m even happy with. So at first I didn’t know what to do with the flowers because I didn’t want to repeat what I already had in the catalogue, but then I came up with the idea of trying high key. I have a portable light tent that I got last year, I thought it would be good at taming harsh light and wind. It turned out that it doesn’t really do anything to the wind, and it’s too awkward to carry around for any longer hikes so the light tent didn’t see much action last year. But now that I had this high key idea, I needed a white background and the light tent was suddenly looking a lot better. I don’t normally like white backgrounds and it definitely doesn’t work with most natural subjects, but I’m reasonably satisfied with the results. The flower almost disappears against the bg, so you need to work with the greens to help carry the composition. But the light tent does a good job at eliminating shadows so the picture isn’t too contrasty, which would spoil the whole thing. I think I need some time to digest the pictures to find out if I prefer less or more green (I’ve got plenty of versions), but I hope you get the idea from this one.

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One of the mandarin ducks is back at the pond. So I figured, they came across a mandarin girl and this duck lost, LOL!