thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 2月28日 22時19分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety

Mute swan cygnet with a neck warmer – Yes I know, what an absolutely infuriating piece of grass. I don’t think that I’ve ever been so annoyed by an inanimate object as I was by that bloody rogue piece of grass! I don’t doubt that countless viewers will be screaming ‘clone it out’ but that approach just isn’t for me. It was there, I couldn’t exclude it, much as I tried so it has to stay. I’m not judging those who would clone it out and indeed I understand perfectly why they would, after all it would make the image significantly better but this is just the way that luck goes. I’ve had enough good fortune with my photography and indeed with these swans so when something as frustrating as this happens then I feel it only right to take it on the chin. It was doubly frustrating though as I’d invested months of work in getting to know these swans and in getting them to trust me. This is why I was able to stand where I was, with the mother as relaxed as she obviously is, whilst her cygnet rests casually on her back. Having invested so much time and effort in building that bond of trust I couldn’t then try to casually lean over and pluck the grass from her back as that would have been significantly overstepping the mark and it probably would have put me back to square one. In addition, one of the many endearing qualities of these iconic birds is the speed and ease with which they communicate how they’re feeling and so I just had to accept that on this occasion, one of very few I hasten to add, I simply had to try and make the best of it. I still really like the sequence of images that I was able to capture and whilst the grass definitely represents an imperfection the other subtle qualities that the image has, to me at least, more than outweigh it. So what would you do. To clone or not to clone, I’d be intrigued by your thoughts!

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