Bluebell Woods, Co. CorkEarly May 2009, Courtmacsherry Woods in West Cork. I'd spent days trying to make a bluebell photograph I was actually happy with. The bluebells were at their absolute peak, that dense violet carpet across the woodland floor that only lasts a brief window each spring. I made plenty of conventional images. Sharp, well composed, technically fine. But nothing captured what it actually feels like to stand in there, where the colour seems to hover above the