Travel & Humanitarian Photos
It is perhaps no accident that the first five images from my Year in Pictures show very typically English scenes, given that I was planning to move half-way around the world at the time they were taken. This is the last of those five and shows a bluebell wood in Hampshire. In a country that seems to suffer such long, dark, damp, grey winters the sense of relief and expectation that comes with Spring is almost palpable. There’s a feeling of rejuvenation and re-birth that a walk through a bluebell wood seems to epitomise. The prospect of photographing this kind of scene is one of the few things capable of getting me out of bed long before dawn.
How apposite.
I was thinking of the joy of Bluebell wood photography this morning, looking forward to next spring’s adventure and then thought I must go and have a look at some of yours again…..
Great minds NIc!
Nice to be looking forward to Bluebell photos in the spring.
I love all of the seasons. Yes, even the `grey` ones! But, for me May is the most magical month of the year. As to the bluebells, I can smell them, see that wonderful haze rising up from them, hear the drone of bees, & feel the warm spring sunshine! All I need now is to find that mossy bank on which to lie & stare up into the canopy of fresh green beech leaves above. Heaven on earth!! Encouragingly, the last few days here have been bright, clear, and frosty and better still the evenings are lighter by a good 45 minutes!!