I always find taking photos in a forest tricky. You think with your eye you really see something you want to take a picture of - a pretty picture! But when you look through the camera's viewfinder, you see a flat image, a messy background, a lot of junk in the foreground. So it turns out that your eye does not really see, but subconsciously makes an interpretation of what you perceive. But sometimes, in a forest, you see exactly what you want to see and that was the case with this image. Sunlight filtered through the branches of the straight trees, a perfect layer of moss on the ground. And by creatively lighting it, I was able to direct attention exactly where I wanted it to appear. I think it is very successful!
I came this close to not being involved in photography. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with the biggest parallax error you could wish for! So I always had pictures of people without heads. I used these cassettes with 12 or 24 photos, black and white (that.. Read more…