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Bit of an uninspiring day today. I started off with good intentions, aiming to experiment with fill flash seeing as it was a very bright day. Good opportunity to fine tune my judgement of best using flash to fill in overly dark detail. Unfortunately, I ended up not having much time to experiment.

However, I did notice some brightly coloured flowers that have taken over my ex-pond. It's filled with bricks and stones now, and these flowers have popped up all by themselves around it. This is the best of a few quick shots I took, but I'm not 100% happy with any of them. The composition feels messy and cluttered, and there's not a lot to draw you into the picture. I tried to include one of the protruding house bricks I used to fill in the pond just for a little interest.


One thing I'm trying to do is come up with a "theme" for each day. Today's was going to be fill flash. No idea what tomorrow's will be. I'll sleep on it.

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