Autumn is my favourite time of year for photography; and yet I find myself trawling through summer images in my Lightroom archive and decided to share this one.

The poppies were in a pot waiting to be planted in the garden; I took them to an upstairs windowsill and photographed them against the light with Fuji Provia 100F film in a Mamiya RZ67.

I’m not sure they liked being photographed though; when they were planted in the garden they didn’t thrive whereas two other pot-fuls planted at the same time did fine.