Floating Leaf #1

This photograph has grabbed peoples attention while I have been exhibiting my photography at local craft fairs and events with many people asking how... more

by Carl Whitfield

Title

Floating Leaf #1

Artist

Carl Whitfield

Medium

Photograph

Description

This photograph has grabbed peoples attention while I have been exhibiting my photography at local craft fairs and events with many people asking how I managed to get the shot and whether I had waited for a leaf to fall from a tree. Unfortunately I have also received the sceptical comments from people saying it is all done with computer software, which annoys me greatly as I can assure you it was not. So I have decided to give away the secret of how I managed to capture this 'floating leaf'. Well I was walking through the woods at Golitha Falls and noticed this leaf that just looked to be in mid air, as I got closer I could see what had happened. There was the finest strand of a spiders web attached to two trees and somehow this leaf had fallen from one of the trees and managed to hook itself by the stem of the leaf onto the single strand of the spiders web and was just hanging there in the air. I took many photographs of this leaf and some of which you can see the strand of the spiders web when zoomed in on the image but had wanted to capture it without this being seen and this is the result.

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January 3rd, 2011