You just have to love trees… they sit quietly in the landscape, they don’t bother anyone, except perhaps our deciduous friends who shed their leaves in fall, as we are obliged to clear up after them, but it really is a small price to pay for the splendour they offer from Spring onwards.
The picture here is of a great cedar in the grounds of the now demolished Scarthingwell Hall, long may it reign, the tree that is!
The scene here is helped by the fact that the sun is back lighting the focus of our attention, it’s a really lovely old tree and the sun does it proud, I have made the facets [the tree fir cones] less obvious, joining them to create a block feature of the colours… such techniques are a bonus of the digital darkroom. The salting, of winter snow adds to the effect. A larger version, showing the artistic simplification, can be seen by clicking on the image.