This photograph is a visual ode to the silence of the landscape, captured in a moment of golden abundance and solitary beauty. A vast rapeseed field fills the image with an intense yellow, like a living carpet rolling out to the horizon. The flowers sway gently in an invisible breeze, while above them hangs an overcast sky in soft shades of grey and blue - a subtle contrast that adds to the vibrancy of the field.
At the centre of the image is a bare, leafless tree, like a silent sentinel in a sea of colour. Its dark silhouette breaks the uniformity of the yellow and adds an element of contemplation. Above right, a flock of birds hovers in formation, their flight frozen in time, like notes on a score of air. On the horizon are beehives, almost inconspicuous but meaningful - a silent reference to life, labour and cycle.
This composition is both harmonious and loaded with symbolism: bloom and void, movement and stillness, nature and human intervention.
Father - Photographer - Engineer - Pizza lover - Springsteen fan - Traveller
I'm Ben - self-taught landscape photographer from Belgium, in search of light and stillness since 2016.
At 45, I took a camera in my hands for the first time. A late start, perhaps, but proof..
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