Clipstone Forest Revisited (November 2018)

At the moment I feel like I am in some sort of posting time warp where I can't seem to get to the end of November 2018's autumn photographs! I could, of course, move on to more current subjects but this would consign lots of images either to the depths of the hard drive or to that floating place away in the cloud....

I have always aimed to make this blog comprehensive, covering the full timeline of my photography activities. I also feel that my photography has improved because of the blogging process and I have certainly gain more satisfaction from organising my photography in this format. The only embarrassment is the constant, typos, missing words, wrong words, errant punctuation, and clumsy writing. I never suspected that writing a few paragraphs to support some photos would be so difficult at times! That said, I enjoy the reference library that the blog provides particularly having found a way to convert the posts to a PDF book.

So, with all that mind, I will press on with the November 2018 posts which sees me back in Clipstone Forest only a matter of days after the last visit - or what seems like months in blog time! After a few test shots on my normal route around the forest, I could see that the colours had peaked and the leaves had started to fall in numbers. That said, there was enough colour to keep the photography interesting particularly looking up to the tree tops where the light and colour was very strong:

The image below shows the context for the above tree tops compositions and it demonstrates the need to get right underneath the trees for the best shots. The more conventional point of view is not as effective or as visually striking:

I applied a similar approach to some oak and beech trees:

 Yet again, I have more images than will comfortably fit into one post so I will complete this one with some shots of beech trees and leave the rest for a 'part 2' post: