BBC Countryfile Magazine

THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHING FLOWERS

It’s a sunny early summer’s day and I am sitting in a meadow listening to the chirping of grasshoppers and crickets, the songs of skylarks and stonechats and the buzzing of insects flitting between the wildflowers.

Time almost seems to stand still as I watch the daisies and grasses sway in the breeze through the camera viewfinder. Whatever is going on in the wider world, all the worries that I carry around with me, all slip away in this moment of simple connection and stillness. It is then that I release

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