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.
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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