I’m done with Bluebells.

So this may not make me very popular with Landscape photographers here in the U.K. for whom come late April there seems to be only one option to point the camera at, but I for one, am done with Bluebells.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not done with the flower, I love Bluebells, but I am done with trying to photograph them. For the last few years, along with everyone else, I have been on a Bluebell hunt during April, scouring the islands woodlands for a composition of that carpet of Bluebells, but I now have to accept that it just doesn’t exist here, and actually I am more than okay with it.

Don’t get angry with me, but I’m starting to see the carpet of Bluebells shot in woodland as a bit of a cliche, I can admire a lovely Bluebell shot, but once you’ve seen one, it’s difficult to get excited about to 200th shot of straight trees rising from a sea of flowers and if you spend any time on instagram over the next fortnight, you’ll see a lot more than 200 I’d wager.

There have been some incredible shots from within the woodland, featuring Bluebells and I find these much more interesting to look at than the traditional carpet, but our island woodlands just don’t seem to hold this same interest.

So for the rest of this spring, along with future springs, I will give the woodland a miss and instead focus on finding new areas to shoot, like this lovely scene I found yesterday…on my way back from getting annoyed in another woodland!

Well, until the wild Garlic blooms at least….wild garlic we do well here!