A little violet in the grass …
In 2023, the municipality of Zonnebeke (near Ypres) began a major renovation of the Villa Zonnedaele country house, the well-known beige building in the castle grounds that is a favourite spot for many photographers.
Finally sorted through the bunch of shots I took during a little bike round, a couple of days ago.
One of these is not like the others.
The cat is brilliant, and then there’s that one rabbit – animals always make for wonderful photos.
“Rule of thirds”
(Composition straight out of camera, only basic edit in darktable, e.g. undoing the negative exposure correction that I have permanently dialled into the small LX7 to protect the highlights; local contrast, a tiny bit of chroma noise reduction.)
Those are fun :-)!
1 and 3 look gorgeous! How did you do those? Flash?


















