I wrote this last year but completely failed to gather enough twigs to photograph and illustrate the article. Waddya know, exactly the same thing has happened this year, so instead I've unearthed some lovely old botanical illustrations which include the look of the trees bare branches and which, hopefully, illustrate the various differences. Perhaps next … Continue reading Identifying 6 common trees… …in Winter
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Photographing trees
Earlier this year I resolved to spend lots of time this summer photographing (and identifying) trees for my Instagram feed. (See A love of trees for more.) Now, if you follow me on instagram you can't fail to have been struck by a simple fact: you haven't remotely been spammed with hundreds and hundreds of … Continue reading Photographing trees
A love of trees
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know have a bit of a penchant for photographing flowers. (For which read, my feed is stuffed full of floral photos, mostly taken on my daily wanderings round Peckham Rye Park.*) But there was another reason that my feed was 90% flowers: my crappy iPhone 3 which objected … Continue reading A love of trees