WOOD
Older than us, and wiser perhaps, trees battling the elements alone, or grouped together forming enchanted shelter, trees anchored for years or centuries growing slowly and evolving through the seasons, with autumn being a time of wonder.
Autumn to Winter, Little Langdale
It's funny how you can spend hours looking for the perfect location, and then when you return after a sunrise session for your breakfast, there it is, right outside the window of your holiday cottage. This lonely birch tree seems insignificant most of the time, but was caught unsheltered by the first frosts of autumn, while the sheltered beeches in the wood behind remained untouched. To me it tells the story of the transition from autumn to winter.
The Carpet of Wild Garlic, Dorset
I had been searching for years for a perfect woodland filled with wild garlic, and eventually I found this one, near Dorchester. I wanted to capture it at sunrise, which is rather early in May, to get the beams of light between the trees.
This is one of my favourite images, and perhaps my most widely seen, having won the Food in the Field Category at the 2016 Pink Lady Food Photographer of The Year Awards, and was widely shared in national newspapers, and around the world. There is something about being somewhere so peaceful and solitary, but then the image being seen by many, but in this case I have never shared the location, as I think it deserves to stay pristine and not be trampled, and also there is the reward to researching where it grows, and finding it yourself.
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The Little Langdale Oak
This tree is well known, standing on a mound and welcoming visitors as they head towards Wrynose pass. On this day the inversion was thick, so I ran up Castle Howe to get the view from above.
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Autumn Reflections II, Blea Tarn
Blea Tarn is one of the most photographed locations in the Lakes, and as the sun hit the varied hues of the larches, I decided to look at it from another angle.
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Moor Crichel Avenue in Autumn I
This magnificent avenue in Dorset is actually quite young, I recall it was only a few years ago before the canopy joined together. A magnificent sight in any season.
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Autumn Larches in the Rain, Colwith
Birch Tree II, Holme Fell
I waited hours for this image, with sun lighting the tree, but the Langdales in shadow. There are much worse places to sit and while away the hours though, and up here with that view, hours can seem like minutes.
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Birch Tree I, Holme Fell
Sentinels I, Moor Crichel
Close to home, I love this Beech avenue as it changes through the season. Here the low autumn sun creates some beautiful tall shadows as it filters through the trees.
Two Become One, Holme Fell
Two Birch trees in partnership, to make one canopy.
Ivy Scar, Wensleydale
Kilmington Woods
The beautiful ethereal Kilmington woods, only weeks before these trees were felled, and the habitat lost forever.
Ethereal Dawn, Winterbourne Abbas
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Layers, Tom Heights
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Wild Garlic
Golden Larch, Hodge Close
Tucked away deep in Hodge Close Quarry, this larch basks in some rare winter sunlight, framed by the arch of the quarry tunnel.
Flame Larches, Moss Rigg
The autumn light seems to set these larches on fire in Moss Rigg quarry.
Kilmington Woods II
The beautiful ethereal Kilmington woods, only weeks before these trees were felled, and the habitat lost forever.
Heavy Rain Over Autumn Larches
Forest Fire, Uddens Plantation
Autumn in Dorset, and the gaps between the trees looked like flames.
Winter Light, Moors Valley
One day I want to Grow As Tall As You, Moors Valley
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Wild Garlic II
I had been searching for years for a perfect woodland filled with wild garlic, and eventually I found this one, near Dorchester. I wanted to capture it at sunrise, which is rather early in May, to get the beams of light between the trees.
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