Nature nominee

The first time I came across these trees the low afternoon sun was lighting up a display of wintry fingers in the tree that was reaching out into the light as though trying to make some great escape from the confines of these dark woodlands. In the summer they were gone, all covered in greenery, but returned in the autumn to reveal the same forms but in a slightly different light and with the last of the leaves still hanging as winter approaches once more.

I am an amateur photographer based in the UK. Having pursued landscape and travel photography in the past, getting works into a local gallery, Derbyshire Magazine and arts festival exhibitions, I started again with a new camera system in 2017. This allowed me to extend my scope and venture further into different genres. My first project was 12 months in duration which I scoped as 'Five Miles from Home' meaning that I would seek to use my imagination in locations almost exclusively in places seemingly very familiar to me. I was sure that there could be more to discover 'on my doorstep' so my aspiration was to rediscover what I had known for many years with intent to portray it in either ways that I had not previously seen it or from a perspective that delves ever deeper into the detail of my home environment.