February, even though it is my birthday month, I rarely think of it as one of my favorite months of the year. Not sure why, but I think it has to do with still being in a dip after the warm and light festivities of Christmas, or with the fact that it is still cold, and the days are often gray and dark, and still pretty short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not this year. This year, I noticed that even though they aren’t up to par with the summer’s days (of course), the days are elongating. And even though the house isn’t filled with Christmas lights, we’ve lit a lot of different cosy lights in the house. Ranging from warm led lights to candles, making our house a warm and cosy home on those grey dark days. And even those grey rainy days of February weren’t that bad. After all, we’ve been treated with a few days of excellent pre-spring weather. Some nice sun, and already pretty good temperatures. And unexpectedly, those rainy grey February days were just a necessity for spring to come. Nature needs these rainy days, as the buds on the trees and the plants need the water to prepare to jump out in a few weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So February was well spent, preparing for spring, browsing through our old photo’s on the cloudy days, see what we can use to submit to the stock agencies we work with, and getting out and shooting new work on the days when the weather was better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On one of those sunny days, we decided to take a walk to one of the clay pit in the neighborhood. Yes, we live in a rural area, with lots of farmfields, but luckily there are also a lot of forests, and in our specific area, there are clay pits. These are ponds that have formed due to clay being digged away, mostly for the old brick bakery that used to be in the village. As you can imagine, these ponds are all in nature reserves now, and are a pleasure to walk to. Nature, and bodies of water as a summum, have always attracted me, by their beauty, by their power, and by the peace of mind they provide.
And photographically, these ponds provide reflections. And reflections are most often a good thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this particular trip, I brought the Fujifilm X-E1 to shoot some (a lot of) pictures. However, I haven’t had the time yet to go through them all. And in the
As for the appreciation of the picture, the number of likes on Instagram was about 10% more than on the runner up pictures. I suppose it is the combination of the subject and colors, but especially the leading lines, amongst which the branch plays a considerable part in the composition of the image. Combined with the reflection of the sky and the sun, this created a strong image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n