simple

Keeping it small

There’s a lot to be said for keeping the subject small. It can say so much more about the species, in this case a lapwing, than a frame filling portrait. But, and it’s a big but, the landscape surrounding it has to be either photogenic or informative or, both. The lighting played an enormous part when, due to the misty sunrise, the landscape was kept simple and shapes softly defined except for the lapwing caught in light. Imagine the same scene taken in the middle of the day when the orange glow would have disappeared and in its place, green!