Elgin, Moray, Scotland

Ironically there are very few oaks in the Oakwood at Elgin but there are a great many wonderful beech trees and during the Spring their collective canopy is the most glorious verdant green especially underneath a soft white sky and gently dappled sunlight. The grey shoulders of their trunks reach skywards to collect as much light as possible and beneath is last years autumn fall a dazzling rust red to juxtapose against the luminous green. The bizarre effect you see here is a surreal rendition created not by digital means but by the applicaton of smeared vaseline to a filter carefully aligned so that it peters out below the trunks to the sharper texture of the leaf fall, an impressionistic technique that suits few situations but never-the-less seems to work very well here.

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