Shrouded Woodland

'I believe in the imagination’……..’To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.’ Duane Michals. I have always enjoyed making images of trees. I am fascinated by their shapes, colours and textures. When the viewer allows their eyes to look up from underneath the canopy, they enter a hidden woodland, contained only by branches and leaves, with a background of sky and occasionally a subtle landscape. The Brecks near where I live, is an area containing some very iconic trees. Their deep dense foliage, twisted and crooked branch shapes, can be seen grouped together and dotted across the mainly flat landscape.

Tangles and Turns 'Trees are the poems the earth writes upon the sky.' Kalil Gibran

Secret Glade 'Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade. Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade.' Alexander Pope

Fragile Frost 'But Frost, like cystalised dreams of Autumn began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze.' Victoria Logne

Snow Bound 'I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug you know, with a white quilt. ' Lewis Carol

Golden Hues 'When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold.' JRR Tolkein

Twilight Shadows 'I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be a shadow! Sylvia Plath

Coveted Blooms 'And the day came when the risk to remain a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.' Anais Nin

Burning 'A house you can rebuild; a bridge you can restring; a washed-out road you can fill in. But there is nothing you can do about a tree but mourn.' Louise Dickinson Rich

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