Woodland photography galleries
12 ways into the woods.
Twelve ways of seeing the same few woods. Each gallery follows a mood, a condition, or a way of looking, made close to home, mostly, and returned to across the seasons.
British woodland.
Ancient woods across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, frequently returned to throughout the year.
Temperate rainforest.
The wet, moss-laden Atlantic woods of Britain's western edge, where the trees wear fern and lichen and the air stays damp enough to keep them.
Trees and water.
Woodland rivers, lakes and falls across the home counties, where moving water carries the light and softens the structure of the wood around it.
Lone trees.
Single trees standing apart in open ground, the ones that hold a whole field on their own and ask to be photographed as portraits rather than scenes.
Intimate landscapes.
Small scenes of colour, texture and form, the close, quiet corners of the wood that most people walk straight past without a second look.
Tree textures.
Bark and grain seen up close, the lines, scars and markings that decades of weather and growth leave written across the surface of a tree.
Fungi and mushrooms.
The small architecture of the forest floor, seen close through a macro lens, where a single autumn fruiting body becomes a subject in its own right.
Ferns.
Unfurling spring fronds, the layered greens of summer and the slow rust of winter, photographed across the full turn of the fern year.
Woodland wildflowers.
Brief appearances on the forest floor, bluebell, stitchwort, wood anemone and the rest, each flower keeping its own short fortnight before it goes.
From above.
The wood seen from directly overhead, the patterns and the season laid out in a way the path beneath the canopy never quite shows you.
Moody skies.
Weather that turns the sky into the subject, storm light and heavy cloud over woodland and open land, made near home and sometimes far from it.
Monochrome woodland.
Woodland photographed in infrared, the wood rendered in a band of light just beyond the eye, foliage turned bright and structure laid bare.
Take it further
The same few woods, seen as many ways as I have found. Each gallery is a year of returning, not a day of arriving.
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