I find it helps to have a subject or theme in mind when I am out with my camera.  I walked the dogs round the field yesterday, the first time for a while because of the damp weather which makes the field quite muddy.   The wind had blown all day and the sun was out and the field was accessible again.

I had the idea of taking pictures on the theme of Focus on the Foreground.   I had thought to try a picture of a daffodil with a yellow blur of daffodils behind.   However, there just did not seem to be the right clump of daffodils and I came away with just one, and it’s still not whast I wanted.

There are not many trees in the field, but I focussed on details and I am quite pleased with the resulting pictures.  And of course there is always a gorse bush in bloom at this time of year.  One or two other pictures presented themselves, like the reeds beside the burn and a young rook hopping about beside the path.

The dogs are not too happy with me stopping to take pictures all the time.  Lily got quite bored and Poppy was trying to entice me on.