Field of Color in GivernyIn Monet’s Garden at Giverny, a field of red and yellow flowers stretches toward a quiet garden gate, framed by taller wildflowers on either side. A scene that feels lifted from an impressionist painting, alive with color, texture, and harmony.📸 In Giverny, every path feels like walking into a canvas.

Welcome to another entry in Photo Stories, where I step a little further into the intent behind an image—how it came together, and what I was trying to see when I made it.

This one sits in an interesting place. It could easily fall into Travel Stories, or even Nature Stories. But for me, this image is less about where it was taken and more about how it was seen, so it belongs here.

We were traveling through Paris and the Normandy region of France when we found ourselves in the town of Giverny, at the home and gardens of Claude Monet. The French Impressionists have always been one of my favorite schools of art, so this was a place I’d wanted to see for a long time.

Walking through the garden, I found myself thinking less about photographing it in a traditional way, and more about how to capture the feeling of it—something closer to what Monet might have been seeing rather than what a camera typically records.

This scene stood out immediately. Up close, it’s dense—thousands of individual flowers, leaves, and textures competing for attention. But step back, and it softens. It becomes less about the individual elements and more about the wash of color they create together.

That shift is what drew me in.

It started to feel less like a photograph of a garden and more like an interpretation of it. Not documenting the place, but translating it—using a camera instead of a paintbrush.

When I look at the image now, I have the same experience. Focus on the details, and it’s just a collection of separate parts. But take it in as a whole, and it becomes something else entirely—a feeling more than a record.

Standing there, this just felt right.

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