Talk about a family portrait location!! These flowers... people wait all year to get in front of these, and Melissa has been waiting forever to get in front of these flowers. It's not like you can drive up at any time. We got up early in the morning and drove to Newbury Massachusetts to Colby Farm. We were lucky enough to get a spot where there were not too many people.
This sunflower field photo works because we are not buried in the sunflowers. The light is soft and not too harsh. The sunflowers had just woken up so it turned out to be the perfect time of day to show up!
The bummer about Colby Farm is that the flowers go by SO quickly! You wait all summer for them to bloom, when they do you have to go right up! If you don't, you are liable to miss them! Plan to see them bloom in late August or early September. If it rains it will take the flowers out, so hope for great weather.
Plan for the fall of 2023 for great sunflower photos.
What I really enjoy about these photos is the color choices by the family. The black shirt really draws you in and the white shirts don't deter you from the yellow of the flowers. It's hard to find colors that go with yellow, but the black and white colors worked really well.
The negative space on this photo also brings your eye to the entire scene. All too often I see people shoving families INTO the field. I wanted to capture the entire field and the family and give them something to hang in their home. Me, I didn't want to give them a huge close-up photo without the ability to hang art in their home.
Location: Colby Farm, 50 Scotland Rd, Newbury, MA 01951.
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