This is the first in quite a long series of of blog posts.
Several years ago now, I spent a couple of years making one black and white image a day, every day, for nearly 2 years, concentrating a lot on the shapes and forms of trees in the Inverawe, Argyll, avoiding the contrasty light normally appreciated in landscape photography.
This new series takes the same fascination with filling space with shapes that caught my eye, but permits for colour. All images were taken in the course of a couple of hours on a return visit walking around the estate; for the most part they were shot at f/8 with HDR bracketing +/-1 EV, processed in RawTherapee, Darktable and digiKam.
Its only crime was being a small sycamore sapling by the roadside...
This scene was one of my first spontaneous forays into the world of bokeh-panorama (aka Brenizer technique) - by standing closer and using a longer focal length than might otherwise have been the case, one achieves a narrower depth of field; the wider-angle field of view is then recovered using panorama stitching.
Young shoots on fallen willow branches
