Just before the dark
Just before dark
I always welcome this time of year. Yes I know the clocks have gone back, so it’s dark well before you sit down for your evening meal. But the colder and shorter days bring great skies and once the leaves have fallen, the true splendour and skeletal shapes of a line of trees can be really be appreciated.
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10 Responses to “Just before the dark”
I love those skeletal tree shapes of winter also.
(there was one tree at the top end of the Royal Botanic Gardens here in Melbourne and when I lived in the area, I always made it a point to photograph the sky to include that one bare tree as I walked through the exit gate of the Gardens and down the street towards home at dusk).
One tree can inspire many images (let alone a whole row).
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Thank you Vicki. I shall be on the look out for more of the same over the winter.
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Very nice colours and I love the silhouettes. Good work!
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Thanks very much.Good of you to comment.
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Lovely photo Alan.. Dark by 4:30 can be a little depressing, but as you say, when it is light, it can be very beautiful!
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Thanks Peter. I agree. The long nights can be dispiriting but I always try and look at the positives. Pleased you like the photo.
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I too like seeing the shape of trees when the leaves are gone and in your photograph the sky seems to follow the trees. Lovely!
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Thank you. Fortunately this group of trees is a short distance from home, so they are more than likley to be seen again!
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Each season comes with its own pleasures and skeletal trees are one of the delights of winter. I like that slight visual ‘pause’ in the centre of the composition.
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Thanks Andy. As photographers I thing we are all drawn to these natural shapes. These particular trees always seem to be among the first to lose all their leaves.
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