The difficulty of capturing beauty

Lighted reeds, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

The reeds growing in the lake Halkolampi were an exciting photography subject for me, but unfortunately I didn't manage to capture the beauty in a photo. I took several dozen photos, but all had something wrong with them.

Many photos had extra stuff such as tree branches sticking in from the sides. In others the position of the reeds didn't please the eye, or the symmetry was somehow not pleasing.

In the end none of the photos was really what I was aiming at. Perhaps the reason was the wide lens - using a tele might have compressed the reeds into a tighter formation, allowing to get the same feeling like it was there by the lake.