Trees in the landscape

I feel as if I have only begun to explore my first project.

My aim here was to capture images illustrating trees and landscapes. I wanted to communicate something of the relationship between humans and trees, and how this characterizes the places where they exist - or existed - together.

Lots of the images need more work, and there are many more that I would like to take. But I had better leave this for now and concentrate on my next project.

Lots of different photographers have inspired this work, but there are four key ones:

 Fay Godwin

 

Edwin Smith

Ken Scott - not so easy to find, but some examples at this link: http://www.touchingthelight.co.uk/portfolio/uk-classics/gallery/portfolio/#!prettyPhoto

 

and Henri Cartier Bresson

Here is a selection of some of the more successful shots:

Prestwich
50mm, ISO 200, 1/60, f1.8

Crimsworth Dean
17mm, ISO 100, 1/500, f3.5, polarizer, tripod

Musbury Clough
55mm, ISO 100, 1/125, f7.0, tripod

Barnfield Park
35mm, ISO 100, 1/30, f6.3

Prestwich
17mm, ISO 100, 1/30, f10, tripod

Prestwich
28mm, ISO 100, 1/640, f3.5, polarizer, tripod

 

New park, Salford 7

17mm, ISO 100, 1/160, f10

Garden, Prestwich

55mm, ISO 100, 1/125, f4.5

Dunham Massey Deer Park
17mm, ISO 100, 1/200, f5

Housing development, Salford 7
35mm, ISO 100, 1/80, f5, polarizer

 

Kersal Moor

35mm, ISO 320, 1/400, f8

St Paul's Churchyard, Salford
55mm, ISO 100, 1/10, f16, tripod

Abandoned railway, Clifton
50mm, ISO 200, 1/80, f2.8, tripod

Hulme
50mm, ISO 100, 1/1000, f2.0

Dunham Massey
55mm, ISO 100, 1/100, f8

Old schoolyard, Salford
20mm, ISO 200, 1/200, f8

 

Kersal Moor

55mm, ISO 200, 1/100, f13

Near Kiln Field, Helmshore
55mm, ISO 200, 1/5000, f2.8

 

Near Junction 17, M60

28mm, ISO 800, 4sec, f11, fill in flash, tripod

Rushy Leach, Musbury
28mm, ISO 200, 1/2000, f2.8

Swinton Grove Park, Ardwick

50mm, ISO 200, 1/640, f3.5

Musbury
17mm, ISO 200, 1/800, f2.8

New park, Salford 7
35mm, ISO 100, 1/250, f4, polarizer