thephotosocietyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (thephotosocietyInstagram)「Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety Red deer in a pine forest – This is an image that I overlooked entirely for at least 8 years before I got around to processing it.! I’d love to have legitimate reason why but I don’t really. Perhaps if anything the second deer behind the other is the most obvious flaw but the background trees alone should have been enough for me to see its potential. I’m equally unsure about the tree that’s running down the left hand side of the image but when I crop it out the image seems to lose something, not least a slither of the beautifully shaped tree that sits in the top left corner. ‘If in doubt, don’t’ is always my mantra when it comes to either cropping an image or not but as always I do so appreciate your candour on all matters, so much so that I’d love to know your thoughts on the image. When I was preparing my recent competition submission for Wildlife Photographer of the Year I showed, as I always do, my wife because honesty is what she does best. One image in particular she scoffed at, an obvious flaw to her had been left in but to me that flaw was an extra dimension. It stayed, as does the dark, mysteriously snow free tree that frames this image. The conditions as I’ve mentioned before were exceptional but as with all of my images that day I underexposed them, my histogram ignorance of the time costing me dear, but only by about 1 stop of light. For me this image is ALL about the backdrop, those beautifully shaped trees that back onto a clearing in the forest, enough to let the billowing snow cascade in, coating their trunks and adding subtlety to the shapes and textures. Of course I’d prefer it if that second deer wasn’t trying to hide but it is what it is, nature can be a troublesome rogue sometimes but this the joy. I still think that perhaps this image shouldn’t have stayed hidden for so long but that is one aspect of my disorganised personality that’ll never change!」9月9日 7時48分