John Sheldon's photos with the keyword: Nature

The DNG was exposed at The Reflection Pool, Hilliers Arboretum, Hampshire, England on World Photography Day 2022. The Pool is intended to be a place for thought, contemplation, reflection. Photography is possible because light is reflected from things. The light creates a latent image on which a photographer can work to make a picture. Here I have worked on the picture so as to set the bright light reflected from the hard metal frame alongside the delicate colours in the wings – reflecting the durability and hardness of nature but also its delicacy as perceived by humans. Perhaps the picture also ‘reflects’ the development of photography from a pastime for a few scientifically minded, wealthy individuals to something that can be enjoyed by many people – I used a mass-produced ‘prosumer’ DSLR with the basic kit zoom lens. DNG was processed using Affinity Photo software.

Croome Park estate, Worcestershire, UK.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 63. Lovely flower, slightly concealed but thriving at the edge of Poynton Pond. I deliberately included the blurred leaf to provide framing and a sense of space, and to tie in with the similar blue-toned leaves nearer to the flower.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 25.

"Au bord d'une source" youtu.be/ddiVEnWReYQ Happy, carefree music to take away the taste of the news. Irises at Dunham Massey Manor, Cheshire, May 2016.

At Tatton Park.

In the Japanese Garden at Tatton Park.