First Light, Dancing Trees

February 20, 2011 • Tim Parkin

This issue of the First Light series takes a look at a themese set of images from Joe Cornish’s back catalog. If you have Scotland’s Mountains then you will have seen a couple of the images before but there is also a final image from Padley Gorge in the Peak District (interestingly of the same tree that Dav photographed in our Padley Gorge guide in Issue Two).

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3 Responses

  1. davidlangan

    Tim & joe, this is yet another really interesting video, I was totally engrossed!
    I just love the last picture, the symbiotic conversation between both trees is beautifuly rendered and I think it is a great example of genuinely simplfying a composition in the most chaotic of places.
    Also, i think due to the fact the land falls away after the trees, you are given a sense of looking up into the canopy which i really like. (similair to the feeling when you look at Peter Liks “tree of life” photo, though i like this one much more!!!)

    d

    On February 22, 2011 at 4:01 pm • Reply
  2. PaulG

    Several of these great First Light videos see Joe & Tim discussing the role of energy points and other subtle devices for framing images. In my ignorance, these are not concepts I have come across nor deliberately sought to use before GB Landscapes came along. Is this a subject we could see featured for novices like myself?
    Paul

    On February 24, 2011 at 11:38 pm • Reply
  3. Tim Smalley

    Enjoyed watching this as I’ve just been doing quite a bit of tree photography myself over the past few weeks. On the whole I found it very insightful and I really appreciate how you’re covering such an important aspect of landscape photography like composition in a refreshing manner (it’s a subject so often misunderstood by the photographic press).

    On February 26, 2011 at 2:13 pm • Reply

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