like the plague - it may well be something to bear in mind from a creative point of view, but I think most photographers have been guilty of the cliché at some time or other. I just don't care.
In fact it's difficult to resist as summer gets into full swing in the UK, and poppies are now rife on the edges of most cultivated farmland. They are, to say the least, somewhat photogenic, with the red flower being a subtractive primary colour and the green of the fields being its secondary, complementary colour. Red is, in itself, an effective device from a photographic point of view, as its wavelength is at the long end of the visible spectrum and focuses slightly behind the retina in the eye. This makes the brain work harder to interpret the hue and is thus more stimulating to the viewer.
This example, photographed during early morning at Hurn, Dorset, is the culmination of a 4:20am start and a twenty mile bike ride. A fresh breeze was blowing at the time, forcing me to shoot wide open to achieve a shutter speed fast enough to freeze any movement.
300mm f/4 AF-S Nikkor. 1/4000 second at f/4. -0.33 EV compensation. ISO 400.
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