Flowering panicle or false hydrangea (Hydrangea Paniculata) photographed with ICM Intentional Camera Movement; deliberately moving the camera at a slower shutter speed creates a dreamy, painterly effect leaning towards a Monet-like style. The panicle hydrangea is originally from southern and eastern China, Korea, Japan and Russia and is known to have been first described in the early 19th century.
ICM is a, for me, new technique that I wanted to try out and although you always strive for perfect sharpness on certain parts of your photo, you have to let that go; but the result obtained absolutely captivated me...hopefully you too!
I have always loved photographs: capturing moments so that they can be remembered, shared with people who were not there at that moment or, as it were, to be able to travel in time as the atmosphere of the moment is captured. Images can be art(istic), .. Read more…