It’s now when I start to warm up for April. Landscape is still very bleak, but in the garden the first snowdrops are in bloom and a lot of other flowers are coming up. And with almost all of the dirt roads (even those which were not plowed in the winter) are free of snow, I was able to open my bicycle season. It was heavy work though, because the roads are still wet which means they’re soft which means the bike sinks and… well, if you’ve ever tried to pedal through sand,you know what I mean. But still, it was fun!

But these snowdrops then. My theme for this season will be high key – using my portable light tent to create white backgrounds for flowers. Nothing natural about it of course and not everybody’s cup of tea and I don’t know if I’m going to like it either, when I get to try it on coloured flowers and not just these white snowdrops and the pale pasque flowers I did last year. Using some darker flowers will help with the background in any case, because if you compare these two pictures you’ll see that the first one has a greyish background and the flower is lighter, but in the second one it’s vice versa. The difference in creating the pictures is that the second one is actually backlit. With darker flowers, I can overexpose the background without losing detail in the subject.

The crocuses will start to bloom in a few days, so I can do some further experiments with my light tent!