veejaycee
Registered: February 2009
Posts: 5,689
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...... but as I lay heavily camouflaged in wait for my avian friends to appear (ok I was sitting in a comfy chair on my raised patio overlooking my garden and pond), I thought this would make a nice picture close up but while I could fit any lens and walk close enough to take even a macro - the combination of distance (35ft), long lens (500mm, already fitted), and controlled depth of field gave a far better "apparent" perspective. (Yes I was too lazy to move.)
The brown and the yellow leaf on the left serve to alleviate the swathe of green and the rustic (read rotting) trellis helps the composition against the upward reaching Clematis.
Focus was on the middle of the 3 RH blooms.
Anyway I quite liked the result but it could just be me.
This Clematis should have bloomed late June but had I allowed the garden to get ahead of me the last 2 years and in late winter I employed a couple of lads to cut back and tidy up. They thought it best done with petrol powered tree lopper, hedge trimmer and strimmer and cut several plants including this one down to the ground. I mulched heavily and it did the trick and we got lots of late flowers.
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