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The Promise of Spring
April 2004
We have a beautiful cover entitled “Beech Leaves Unfurling” by Violet Snow. Sometimes a photographer is able to find a detail – a moment in time and space – that tells so much more than a wide landscape shot. Here we feel the full force of spring opening up with the miracle of life. It’s been a long and cold winter, and it’s especially thrilling this year to see the flowers and trees and grasses coming back to feast our eyes.
We have a longer than usual portfolio for this issue – as a way, perhaps, of celebrating the season we’ve waited for with such anticipation. We start with a long fence winding down a hill with the brilliant colors of spring around it. Opposite is a quieter image of a luscious green field with a few wild flowers here and there. Then we have several pages of lovely details of flowers, until we come to a spread with two images that are almost abstract. On the left we have yellow forms rising out of the earth in intriguing forms, and on the right we have green grasses perhaps being blown by the wind and moving in different directions to create a lovely pattern.
We end this month’s portfolio with a burst of color in a photograph entitled “Floral Composition 1”. In a way we may think the photographer was lucky in finding those flowers positioned so well next to each other, but then we realize that if she had moved a few inches one way or the other the composition would have been completely different. So we compliment her for discovering this special view in her camera viewfinder.
Spring is a wonderful time to wander around the fields and hills and mountains with a camera. We hope our photographer friends will take rolls and rolls of film this season and send us some that we can save for next year.
David Finn
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