Winter scene in my local patch. ISO 100 - 400 mm - f/11 - 1/5 sec.
In the dark/gray days before Christmas, the weather is not always easy to make beautiful images. I often use this time to visit new areas or to view familiar places in a different way. Most of the time I try to use my imagination and see the spot in misty conditions or in winter period with snow and or frost.
In my long-running project “autumn meets winter” I am always looking for trees that keep their leaves longer to photograph them in a winter setting. One of those trees is a native oak tree in my local patch “Het Wierdenseveld” this tree stands along the edge of a meadow and a small piece of woodland. I had seen this oak with its beautiful rust-brown leaves for several years, but I never had the opportunity to make an image of it.
However, during a winter morning I thought there is a possibility of fog because it was was a cold morning without wind, but unfortunately that was not the case at all. When I started to make composition the first rays of sun light fell nicely on this oak tree so the light was not bad, but the image lacked the tension as far as I was concerned. I made the image below of this visit.
Oak tree without hoar frost. ISO 100 - 320 mm - f/11 - 0.3 sec.
