It’s a little too early for most flowers to be blooming, although I did find flowering snowdrops yesterday at Green Spring Gardens, a local county-run historic garden. I like the way that the white of the flower shines in the shadows, a reminder that the brightness of spring will eventually come.
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I also like that you’ve left it relatively somber rather than giving in to the temptation of brightening everything up. Very effective!
Thanks, Gary. I did indeed think about brightening it up, but the brighter green seemed almost fake. I even toyed with the idea of turning it black and white.
Did you use flash when you shot the photo?
I am pretty sure that I did not use flash when I took this shot–I would have been afraid of blowing out the highlights and losing the details of the white petals.
Thank you for the link – lovely to see the snowdrop. I am off to Kingston Lacey next week and hope to see some at this National Trust property