From the archive

 Taken about 25 years ago during a winter camp at Shorne Woods country park.

Catching Up

 Been a strange week. Family visits and a car breakdown. 

Shooting Square

Just to try and make me look and see things differently, today I tried to compose all my images in a square format.

Shorne Again

Another sunny evening and a walk around Shorne Woods. Main reason was to carry a full bag of cameras that I'm using next week. Testing the bag to see if it is still solid enough and not going to fail.

Anyway still got some nice pictures.

Old Trees

Not the best day I've had for awhile, very hard to get going and no motivation.
After a morning not doing much I took a walk out to the local Nature reserve at Shorne Woods.

It was very busy with lots of children, as this will be about the last weekend of the summer holidays. Autumn term starting soon. That said a short walk out the back of the bark and you are away from the crowds. On the slopes there are a few old skeletons of trees. Some damaged in the great storm of 1987, some damaged by a big fire a few years later.

They stand like ghosts, their bare arms spreading across the sky, their trunks, stripped of bark showing all the lines a whorls normally hidden in a living tree.

Trees at Shorne

 A shot from yesterday of the trees at Shorne made me think that they had a Tim Burton'ish' look to them.

December Frost

December has started with a wonderful frosty morning. After all the rain of November this is a nice change. I had a trip to Shorne and got some really nice images.