Photo:

For me, this picture is a great example of the value of experimentation.  While walking in the woods near our home, there was frankly little of interest to shoot.  I had the wrong lens to try to capture any of the many birds; I didn’t have a macro to play with some of the smaller green shoots around.  So, I had to stretch with the camera and just try stuff — play the ‘what if’ approach to photography.   I have thrown a lot of images away from that day …  but not this one.  I like the colours and the bokeh and just the whole feel of the image.  I may play with cropping this image one day to see if composition could be improved.