Welcome to Serenity In The Woods
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Thank you for subscribing to Serenity in the Woods. It is a letter from the woods: occasional, unhurried notes on seeing, composing and editing woodland photographs, and the odd essay on why any of it matters.
While the first letter finds its way to you, here are a few essays to read now. They are the heart of what I write, and the best way to get a feel for how I think about the woods.
Start with these
Four essays to begin with.
Read them in order if you like, or follow whichever title stops you.
The Long Way Into The Woods
Where all of this began: how I stopped collecting grand views and turned toward the quiet woods close to home. The essay the rest grow out of.
Read the essay →The Jar
Why the photographs you almost didn’t bother to make can turn out to be the ones that matter.
Read the essay →What Self-Doubt Becomes
The doubt never quite leaves as you improve. Here is why that is a sign of progress, not failure.
Read the essay →The Camera Is the Excuse
On going for the walk first, and letting the photograph be a bonus.
Read the essay →What to expect
A letter from the woods, now and then.
No noise, and nothing on a schedule for its own sake. When there is something worth saying, an essay or a quiet note from a morning out, it lands in your inbox. You can leave any time, and I read every reply.
Who's writing to you
About Tim.
I am a professional woodland and nature photographer based in Hertfordshire, UK. For well over a decade I have returned to the same handful of quiet local woods, in every season and most weathers, and that return, rather than any dramatic location, is the whole of my practice. Most of them are the fifty-acre patches other photographers drive past.
I teach what I have learned one-to-one, in the field, on workshop days built around your own pictures rather than a fixed curriculum. I am also working toward the distinctions of the Royal Photographic Society, a body of work made not in famous places but in the ordinary woods close to home.
My prints and large-format installations also hang in eco-lodges, wellness retreats, healthcare spaces and hospitality interiors across the UK, including commissioned work for every lodge across four Center Parcs villages, with a fifth now beginning rollout. But the letters you have just signed up for come from the other side of that work: the quiet mornings, and what the woods keep teaching me.
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