When I’m not shooting commissioned work I shoot for a few stock libraries. One of my drivers, as you’ll see if you look at the portfolio, is the concept of symmetry and it’s extremely rare to just stumble across this in nature.
The following image was made during a trip to Germany & Holland in spring this year to shoot stock. I found myself driving through the beautiful countryside of the Eifel region in Germany (south west of Bonn) with its rolling hills and amazing wind turbine farms. The main purpose of the day was to visit some of the little medieval villages that populate this region and to shoot them for my stock libraries.
The weather was absolutely amazing. This was April 2007 and I’d gone armed with jumpers and sweatshirts expecting 15-20 degrees. However, central Europe was hit by a small heatwave and it was 30 degrees most days. This was great for stock as all the towns looked like it was mid August with pavement cafes bustling, but without that photographic nightmare…. summer heat-haze…..
En route in between stops I chanced upon this scene and knew I had to capture it. Two trees completely isolated on the horizon breaking up the block colour of the sky and crops in the field. I drew to a halt (no…actually screamed to a halt - nobody behind me though so no worries…) and set up the camera using a 200mm lens to compress the scene.
Didn’t really have to do much to this in post at all, the colours were just beautiful in real life. You can see a larger version of the final in the “land” gallery on my website portfolio
Until later…..
J
