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Two days ago, I went out of town with my family to see the canola fields. We do this on every year, but we would usually go at the end of August, when most of the yellow flowers have finished blooming. This year, however, we didn’t make the same mistake again and went during the peak of blooming season. And since I am way too addicted to photographing scenery and flowers, here are some photos of this cute little trip:
A classic photo to start off. I have around 100 photos of canola fields, blue skies, and clumps of trees on the side. Here is one of many from this year’s collection.Here’s another one of the “classics”. This time with the trees in the middle! This style of photo always makes me think of the Windows “Bliss” background. I actually have one of these photos as my current desktop background.Spicing it up with a gravel road down the middle. My parents like to photograph the flowers and ONLY THE FLOWERS, but I think that gets boring after a while. I guess I’m more interested in the “canola farm all-in-one experience”.Canola fields sometimes feel like a sea of flowers. This photo makes me feel like I’m “swimming in the sea”.Yes, we are diving deeper and deeper into the canola sea. For some reason, the smoke in the sky makes the photo feel cinematic, like a scenery shot from a film.Another thing about canola flower photography: I feel like most people like to take pictures of the huge flower field, but not the individual flowers. So I went closer and took some pictures.
Here are the individual canola stalks! Before this, I didn’t know that canola stalks were so tall. You learn something new every day…And we end with this extreme close up! A few years ago, I took a photography course at school and my teacher specialized in “macro photography” or extremely detailed close up photography. Ever since I saw his photos, my camera roll was filled with macro photographs (mostly of flowers).
