Winter trees make good photographic subjects. They give landscapes detail and their skeletal silhouettes offer a stark beauty. On a frosty winter day the contrast between black branches and the overcast sky and whitened ground is stronger still. In the photograph the mist is enhancing this effect further. The trees visible above are managing to hang on in an intensively farmed area because they have grown either on the side of a drainage ditch or next to a farm building and so are are no impediment to the vehicles that cultivate the land and harvest the crops.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10
