A Landscape Location that Keeps Me Returning to Create Fine Art Photographs
As a landscape photographer I find that I am often drawn back to the same location again and again. Perhaps it is simply the beauty of the landscape that draws me to this spot. More than likely it is my desire to create the perfect landscape photograph, one suitable for printing and hanging on my wall.
Two Trees on a Hill
Each summer I head down to Buttonwood Farm in Griswold, Connecticut for the Sunflower Festival. While I am there I make a point to photograph the 2 trees that sit on the top of a small hill across from the ice cream stand. It is this spot that I come back to over and over again.
I have photographed these trees with a wide angle lens to capture the landscape that surrounds them, with the cat-o-nine-tails and the grass of the hill itself. I have photographed them with a telephoto lens to isolate the trees themselves, making them the major element of the photograph.
As I stood looking up at the trees, I could not help but think what an amazing view these two trees have of the setting sun. My perspective changed, and as it did the photograph that I planned to create changed as well.
From the top of that hill I could imagine the trees looking down across the landscape below, watching the sun drop below the horizon on some distant lake. In my minds eye the two trees began to transform into a young couple, holding hands and gazing off into the distance. I knew right then that the hill and the trees needed to become a silhouette to help tell my story.
I tried to capture the vision that I had in my mind, and I like this years photograph of the landscape the best. You can purchase a high quality fine art print of this photograph in my print gallery.
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[…] Each year I make the short drive to a local farm that plants acres and acres of sunflowers as part of their annual Sunflower Festival. The fields are gorgeous at sunset, and photographers come from all over New England to get a chance to photograph their beauty. Across the street is two trees, and I have photographed them many times. I love the trees in silhouette in this photo, it helps to lend a bit of mystery to the scene. I think of the trees as two lovers, holding hands on top of the hill watching a beautiful summer day come to an end. You can read the full story “Photographing Two Trees On A Hill” […]
[…] I have photographed them many times: I have done a sunset photograph of the trees, as well as a silhouette of the two trees. This time I wanted to do something a little different. I knew I was going to be in the area for […]