"As a landscape photographer I tend to shoot most of my images in the more dramatic seasons. Autumn, Winter and early Spring are my favourites, the weather is moody and the light more striking. Summer is difficult – all that blue cloudless sky… I tend to leave my camera at home.
But occasionally you just happen on a scene that cries out to be photographed, it demands that you get out the camera. But if it’s June, and I’m on holiday with my wife (not keen on me traipsing around with a tripod) and I therefore don’t have my camera with me… what do I do!?!?
That’s just what happened a few weeks ago in Puglia, Italy. We were driving along through the olive groves and suddenly the view turned a bright, saturated, delicious red. Masses of poppies, just everywhere. Fields and fields and fields of them. Overwhelming colour. I couldn’t just drive by, I had to get a photo!
My iPhone and ReeHeld were my saviour. A 13 second exposure, handheld, allowed the slight wind to blur the delicate poppy flowers to give me an impressionistic feel of washes of colour. The red contrasting beautifully with the green of the olives. Dappled summer, caught in a single photo. I should have known Summer was the best for photography…"
Tom runs photographic landscape and architecture workshops for Quest Photography. Check out his upcoming trips at www.questphoto.co.uk
Thomas Peck
www.questphoto.co.uk
www.thomaspeckphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/thomaspeck
