I have been waiting for the bluebells to come into bloom in the wood in Dales Park in Peterhead.  I visited there today to see how they were coming on, but there are not really in full bloom yet.   It was also not an ideal day for photographs either with an overcast, grey sky, although there was a sudden blink of sun while I was kneeling down close to the flowers.

Pictures of the carpet of bluebell buds on their own really don’t work.  You don’t  get the proper effect of a carpet of blue.   So I tried a close up of a few stems with the carpet behind.  Fortunately I had remembered to take a carrier bag with me to preserve my knees!   But I was not able to properly view the picture before I took it and there is some extraneous vegetation sharing the foreground.

 

Another problem was created by Lily and Poppy who seemed able to stray into the picture because of the extreme wide angle lens I was using.  I decided to try to add Poppy to the pictures, and managed to get a few good shots of her making her way in and out of the dusty bluebells.

Clearly I needed some foreground interest, so my last attempt this morning was to feature the fresh new sycamore leaves with the bluebells behind.

I must go back in a few days to the bluebell wood when the sun in shining and hopefully the flowers are more fully out.