Choosing Final Images - Theme 1

These are the images that have been chosen for the tree theme. These were chosen from several different shoots.

The images that didn't make it to the final ten were discarded for various reasons. One example being that there would have been a fair amount of retouching work to do to remove distractions such as mud. This was the case with the leaf image below.

The other main reason was some of the images were generally less striking, perhaps with less interesting lighting conditions or content too similar to what had already been chosen. An example of this can be seen below. 

The final ten cover a variety of ways of photographing trees.

Image 1 was chosen for the interesting sky detail and shape of the tree.
Image 2 was chosen to make use of macro to show the detail in a leaf.
Image 3 shows focus on colour and leaf shape.
Image 4 uses a tree to frame a scene.
Image 5 is an example of a silhouette.
Image 6 was all about the graphic shape of the branches and the contrast against the sky.
Image 7 was from an unusual viewpoint, focusing on bark texture and the sunlight above.
Image 8 shows a different way of lighting.
Image 9 was kept as a simple composition to focus on the colours.
Image 10 was about showing the branch shape, the sun on the foliage and the colours.