The portrait format seemed to work best for most of the photographs as it provided enough height to capture the subject trees' branching patterns, exploiting the tunnel like appearance of the trail, and making a feature of the autumn colours:
An alternative approach was taken with a group of oaks tree on a path from the trail across the Hexgreave Estate. Here, a landscape format was used for most of the photographs as the setting was more open and I wanted to connect the trees in the compositions including the lone trees standing in the field behind:
Whilst many of oak trees were displaying autumn colours, some, like this leafless horse chestnut tree, had finished their season providing an early start to the winter tree photography:
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