April Woods

A joyous palette of mixed greens sprout and grow in the woods, bold grasses and fresh leaves move in the breeze. Birdsong accompanies the butterflies’ dance above the purple and lilac clusters of bluebells covering the forest floor.

To translate all these sensations in a photograph is nay impossible. As the human eye focuses on small details of any scene, near or far, and the brain fills in the gaps to give us the whole image, so a photograph is only a tiny piece of a scene that should tease the other senses to collate the moment’s ingredients. Opening your camera’s aperture to paint an image’s background with guessed-at shapes outside your focal range, may thus do more to evoke a scene than a clear and crisp landscape can.

If all is revealed in a photograph, there is little space for our imagination to stimulate our senses. The bluebell may be but a smudge of purple-blue, a tree’s branches a watercolour’s marbling. We are immersed in April’s hues.

Less is more. A tease of a glimpse into a world that can be anything. An narrow depth of field is a book without a movie, a story that is ours for the visualisation.