I Have A New Camera!

Yes, after years of snapping wildly at my flowers with an old so-cheap-you-know-you’re-going-to-regret-it Argos special, I have taken the plunge and bought a proper camera. It was expensive (for me anyway – I am innately reluctant to spend money on what I, deep down, feel is nothing more than a gadget) but it was long overdue. When your business is about creating a look, not having any decent pictures seems somewhat remiss.

Anyway, having done the deed, I am determined to a) not get dirt in it* and b) learn how to use it properly. I look at the blogs of people like Belinda at Wild Acre and Erin at Floret Flower Farm and I find their pictures both beautiful and, more importantly, inspiring. I only hope that one day I will be able to take such magical images.

So far, all I’ve done is play around with the buttons. I am at heart a manual-reader – I like to start at page 1 and work my way through it, but the idea that I’ll get the time to do that this side of Christmas seems farcical right now. One of the things I’ve been trying to do is highlight a flower and leave the background blurred. If it’s worked at all, it has been more by luck than judgment, but one thing I’ve learnt, and been delighted by, is how it also obscures the waist-high nettles in the background. Yay! Not a bad start.

*You would understand why that gets top priority if you saw my van.