Inspired #22

What does a landscape feel like? A photo shoot from start to finish with a printed book as the end result.

Hello and welcome to Inspired, a weekly email for my paid subscribers. In this series I want to explore topics which I hope might spark some inspiration for your own photography. I will talk about my thought process for creating images, both in the field and in post processing. The posts will be linked in some way to the monthly challenges, hopefully giving you all lots of food for thought.

This week I decided to undertake a small project on my local heathland. I found a small patch of grasses growing beside a circle of trees. The grasses were partially in the sun and partially shaded by the trees. Some were coated in dew and glinted in the golden morning light. There were several different varieties, some tall and rough and others smaller and more dainty but to me they all looked beautiful.

Upon closer inspection I found a common blue butterfly camouflaged among the grass stems and I wonder what it would feel like to be an insect living among the grasses. This pondering became the focus of my mini project.

What does it feel like to live among the grasses.

This blog post is about how I approached the project. How I created the images so they conveyed particular feelings and how I selected and processed the final shots to make a small A5 chapbook.