Early morning photography – poppy fields before breakfast!
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Early Morning Poppies
There are very, very few benefits to having to get up early every single day of your life once you have children. Admittedly I don’t have to get up ‘that’ early since I make MrSpud get up with them if they wake before the internationally approved Get Up Time of 7am. I totally resigned from getting up with children once I stopped breast feeding them on the basis that I’d done back to back pregnancy, breast feeding, breast feeding AND pregnancy, breast feeding for about 3.5 years. I’ve done my time.
Anyway, I found this wonderful poppy field up the road from our house last week and it’s been niggling at me ever since. It’s screaming to be photographed…snap me..snap me….SNAP ME!!!
But the weather and the light have been rubbish, and I was getting wibbly that the moment of the poppy field glory would pass before I could get up there.
So Bertie got up at 6am today and got in to bed with us. Out of the corner of my eye I could see sunshine peeping around the blind, so I dragged myself out of bed and up to the poppy field. Huzzah! The poppies were still there, but very battered by heavy rain.
I didn’t really get the shots I wanted, but then it’s pretty much always like that. But this is quite nice. Shot with a Nikon D70, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 AT-X for the people who care. At f22, 15mm.
ok, freakin’ me out with your comment thingie at the top. did you recently change that, i swear i’ve been here before. but perhaps i’m just easily confused by wordpress…or the headache. or the lack of braincells due to having watched america’s top model…anyway. there’s a poppy field near my house that i hope is still there when i get back because i didn’t have time to go photograph it before i left (do to pissing around on all sorts of other activities that weren’t really that important).
i’m going to sleep now…
Hmmm, I think perhaps America’s Top Model has done for you my love. Only posted this a short while ago.
Poppies, so lovely, but so fleeting! What’s more important that shooting poppies though? Apart from caring for family, children, work blah blah etc etc?
Gorgeous photo, Spud! You often say that they don’t look like you imagined in your head – you must have some AWESOME images on your head, because they’re always pretty bloody good.