Paw Paw, Madison County, NC 2016
It's been five weeks ago now that I took a walk thinking redbuds.
It's not like me to do that,
go out with camera in hand and nature in mind.
I've not been much of a landscape photographer.
People and culture have been my thing.
But it was a vibrant spring day,
bright and crisp and
the redbuds were waiting patiently for me.
I've long thought it trite and repetitive to do this type of picture.
It's what we see in camera club contests and
postcard racks,
on facebook.
But here I was.
In the woods,
searching for the mix of angle and light,
wondering,
how is it I've not photographed such beauty before?