April showers may bring flowers

With a garden full of flowers starting to bloom in the Springtime it would be churlish to overlook the photographic opportunities that it presents literally on my doorstep. And after all, when I purchased my medium-format camera one of my first additions was a macro lens (see That didn’t take long) specifically for this purpose.

I have been studying the work of Dirk Ercken, a Belgian biologist and nature photographer who takes some beautiful dreamy-style flower photographs, quite unlike the stark, record-type of images that I have done in the past. Fuelled by this inspiration I am making a conscious effort to take a more artistic approach and will chart my progress as I go. One of the things I will have to improve though is my flower identification skills.