I mentioned in Monday’s post that I had gone out on Saturday, April 20th to try to capture trees at peak bloom once the rain finally let up. My first stop was Garnet Street which lies off Beach Street. I had accidentally happened upon this street lined with magnolia trees when I took advantage of the first warm day to take my kids to Devereux beach. Since then, I had been stopping here to check the status of the trees.
I had photographed the street on April 17th when the trees had been at peak bloom but wasn’t happy with the composition. As these trees bloom earlier than others, there were bare trees taking up the background that bothered me and made it feel as though the image wasn’t quite right.
So, on this particular Saturday, with great clouds in the sky, I headed back to Garnet Street. I took new shots from varying angles but still wasn’t happy with the feel of the images. At that point, I decided to walk down the street to see if shooting in the other direction would help. Halfway down the small street, I stopped in my tracks. I decided to put the tripod as far along the bushes as it would go and shoot at a slight angle up. In this particular image, I captured a great cloud overhead and the feel of being enveloped by the magnolia trees came through.
The original image taken on April 17th is below (on my website – click the link if reading this on Facebook/Twitter/Google+ or by e-mail). I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is the better one.
