Glowing Poppies by Meowgli
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The obligatory annual glowing poppy shot! Rather similar in nature to my image 'Rouge' but this time shot in the morning, shortly after sunrise. There's a bit of a story behind this shot actually... a story with a moral even!
Last summer after two and a half year's steady shooting I one day thought to myself "what if something goes wrong... what if by some freak accident I manage to lose all my images?"... it's something that's always possible in the digital age but also one of those things you think will never happen to you...
So about this time last year I decided it might be a good idea to finally make a backup of my images. A month later on one of my more clumsy mornings I inadvertantly decided to test how good my hard drive was at flying. Turns out not so good. Tripping over a wire I watched it fall as if in slow motion as it came crashing off my desk and smashed onto the metal speaker stand next to it. One buggered hard drive.
What this meant is that I lost all of the originals for my poppy shots from last year, only able to salvage those I had sent to my printers and those which had been shortlisted for LPOTY. I tried my best to recover it through a data recovery agency but to no avail and paid over £100 for the privilege... I was pretty gutted. But damn. Think how much worse it could have been! Having only thought of backing up as an afterthought a month or so previously I think I can count my blessings my entire portfolio wasn't wiped out! Most definitely a lesson learned the hard way.
Nowadays I backup once a week and for good measure once a month to a hard drive outside of the property in case of fire or burglary.... not taking any chances anymore! So yeah, the moral is BACK YOUR PHOTOS UP! I can't imagine what I would have been like had I lost everything...
Anyway... about the shot! You'll have to excuse the samey-ness but this is essentially a replacement for last year's effort so I can finally print it big. The shot is the result of three consecutive mornings scouting my local area before sunrise in the hope of catching a glimpse of a glowing red field at dawn. Despite having been given a tip-off from a friend about a field they had seen I think they might have been tripping or something cos I looked all around where they told me to look and couldn't find a thing! Casting my net further afield I kept on scouting though and eventually stumbled upon this field on the second morning just as the sun disappeared behind the bank of cloud and the light was gone. I did get a glimpse of what the field had to offer though and on the third morning I finally had my shot.
I have to confess the amount of time it took to blend this image makes me wish I had some grads! 4 exposures in all, as it was also my first attempt at 'focus bracketing'. Very fiddly work but totally worth it when you view the file at 100%... diffraction-free and sharp as hell front to back :)
Happy father's day to all the dads out there!
Adam
(P.S. bit behind on catching up on here, I'll sort that out in the coming days :))
Comments (31)
Artformz2
Beautifully surreal, stunning work.
ArtistKimberly
Wonderful
geoffwoods
fantastic image mate with the view camera I don't have your problems it has a tilt back and a tilt lens I can get everything in focus with 1 sheet the only draw back it's film but there's nothing like a big 4"x5" piece of sheet film to look at.
wonderworld
QUITE cool!!!!
pauldeleu
Wonderful scenery.
Feliciti
fantastic shot !! i like it so much again and again !!
morningglory
Outstanding capture.
jophoto
Wow! Truly beautiful Adam. Sorry about your hard drive. If you make money from your images, you really need to protect them. Adam Jones, who is a photographer from Vermont (I think) backs up all his images onto three identical external hard drives and stores them in different places. When they are full, he buys three more. Now they have this cloud thing...I don't think I would like all my work somewhere in the ether...
qrud
Deep colours summer field.
mdilorenzo
Marvel DOF
flora-crassella
GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nefertiabet
Grandios photo, bravo, love it!!!
labatt50
A superb shot. This shows the difference between a photo and a snapshot.
prutzworks
beautiful image, bracketing works well here Yup, one of my old computers died a few months ago lost all my terragen and mojo stuff :(
kgb224
Thank you for the fathers day wishes my friend and thank you for the advice concerning backing up ones pictures. God Bless.
Faemike55
Wonderful image and good story. I've been backing up my stuff - just in case
fallen21
Wow, superb capture!
bobrgallegos
Very,very Beautiful!! Awesome color and light.
danob
Excellent work Adam, and commend the patience and technical skills to pull it off.
FriedaFelicia
A marvelous sea of red beauties! Amazing shot. Favorites for me!
bmac62
Good morning Adam. It is here, anyway:) Your photo is a real masterpiece. Your narrative ought to be published for all photographers to read. I just bought my first new external hard drive in about 2-3 years. I thought 1 TB was great until noticing that now 2 and 3 TB hard drives are available in local stores. My first external hard drive quit on me with the words..."corrupt file"... Makes me think jophoto's point about multiple hard drives is a good idea. Appreciate your technical explanations...your poppy field shows the value of knowing your trade.
Meisiekind
WOW Mr Edwards - another masterpiece. Thanks for the narrative!
beachzz
I'll never get tired of these shots; they are absolutely stunning!! And the lesson you learned is a good one, and it's going to get me out to do exactly the same things. Funny about flying computers--my son had the same thing happen, they do take to the air too well!!!
tommorules
What's LPOTY? Beautiful shot & technique.
belasebok
Wonderful photo!
gonzojr
Fantastic post-work looks very beautiful!
SIGMAWORLD
Beautiful!
auntietk
Beautiful! This was totally worth the trouble.
whaleman
Just outstanding!
Lashia
awesome POV, love this series