Mum had been wanting to see some bluebells for weeks but we’d always been too busy. So, on our bank holiday Sunday we went to Great Ashby to have a walk in the forest and take some nice photos of the bluebells.
We’d been a couple of years before which you can see on the memories page of my website.
Chelsea came with us too and I made good use of her as a model.
This is my favourite photo from the day. I added lighting effects and wings in Photoshop 
I was using my Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 lens and I was very impressed with the quality of photos it was producing. It gave wonderful bokeh but at that aperture, I had to be careful that the subject was in focus. The Sony A77ii’s focus peaking really helped here.
I think a fairy lives here 
I love these types of high contrast photos 
Another photo to which I added lens flare 
The photos required quite a lot of work in Lightroom to increase the blues, decrease the yellows and color balance the overall photo to make the bluebells pop. In many of the portraits I even blurred the background even more by editing them in Photoshop.
Mum insisted on getting some photos of me and Chelsea.
I then returned the favour.
I tried to do a nice focusing video of some berries but my hands were too shaky and even Adobe Premiere Pro’s Warp Stabilizer wouldn’t help in this situation.
