Strawberry Hill Heath (January 2024)

A selection of photographs from Strawberry Hill Heath capturing the low sun on the winter trees and branches: 

Winter Branches (January 2024)

More abstract style photography at the start of the New Year, this time focusing on the winter branches along the Southwell Trail…

New Year Sunlight…

2022’s photography started on the first fine day of the new year along the Southwell Trail. Standing out amongst the bare leafless trees was an uplifting sparkle of bright yellow hazel catkins against a clear blue sky - a great colour combination:

This inspired further shots along the trail. I particularly enjoyed the low sunlight tracing the twists and turns of the winter branches merging into a glowing halo of fine twigs:

Winter Trail (January 2019)

Throughout January I continued with the near daily routine of walking and photographing the Southwell Trail. A few of these walks produced some clear themes for a photoblog, e.g. fog and ice, which I will cover in future posts. Other times it was just a case of recording different aspects of the trail and enjoying the activity of photography.

For this post I have selected photographs of trees and their branching patterns, often using the winter sunlight to emphasise the structure and give depth to the compositions. They are simple photographs but fun to take. Looking for these patterns adds to the appreciation of the local environment and trees in general. There is a lot of beauty in the detail and the power of photography is its ability to recognise this and to make a selection that captures the moment.

This selection includes catkins on the hazel trees and dried keys on some of the ash trees:

I particularly like the shape of poplar trees and there is row of four or five at the Edingley end of the trail:

Finally, looking up the collective noun for crows was interesting. I found four: horde, parcel, storytelling and my favourite, a 'murder' of crows. A black and white conversion seemed appropriate...