Petal Rain

Since Monday we have lived under the clouds, void of the sunshine. Around 2:16 today, Thursday, March 31st, the sun returned, peeking out here and there behind the rolling clouds making their way east. The creation of this scene was begun in my mind yesterday, when riding past this dogwood, I noticed the petals had been knocked to the ground by the weeks rains. It was now a matter of time before getting back. In walking Nathaniel in the stroller this afternoon around 6PM, I took the little Canon A570 from the car and brought it along. I set it on P, with flash and composed several frames. It took all of a minute, but I had already visualized the scene. This is a good case for always having a camera, or, it really does not matter the camera. I do not think the Nikon D5000 would have done a better job. If this tree was in my yard, I would have climbed it or taken a ladder and taken the shot directly looking down from the trunk. I liked the pines in the background though with the late sun rays, so this works just as well. So there you go. Simple camera. Previsualized scene. Just a simple act of capturing the visualized scene.(Not always this easy).