Separating my photography into tree types (oak, red oak, beech, birch etc) is a recent development - perhaps in the last year or so. It follows my greater awareness of their identities and individual characteristics (leaf shapes, bark patterns, their flowers and their fruits). I have also been inspired by Peter Wohlleben's book, The Hidden Life Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate and I think anyone reading this book will never see trees in quite the same way!
As a result, I feel my tree photography has really improved. I no longer arrive at a wooded area, camera in hand, and just see a mass of trees. Instead I am more able to cut through the complexity and refine my compositions. The more I see, the more I marvel at the beauty of trees and the greater satisfaction I get gain from the activity.
Hopefully, this love of trees translates through my photography and having posted images of the autumn beech trees in my previous post, I now concentrate on the birch trees from the same visit to Sherwood Wood. I selected the following three images for my Flickr page. On first edit, these were the ones I liked the best:
As I now add more images to this post, there are a few of these that I would be tempted to add to my favourites e.g. I like the second one below, it is the sort of image I had in my mind when writing my opening paragraph although I will never make a poet!
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