Featured image: Perception

by Verity Woolf

This image was taken in the forests around the Conwy Valley in North Wales, using a Nikon D200.

Forests to me are magical places, and I always see stories appear when I walk through them. Bringing something unusual into a forest and placing it creates an immediate focus of attention, and it leads you to think of why it could be there and what happened.

This is the effect I’m always seeking to create – I want people to come up with their own imaginary world, and let it appear through my photography.

More images at www.veritywoolf.moonfruit.co.uk

Jo Woolf

Writer and editor of The Hazel Tree. I live by the sea in Argyll, Scotland, and I write about the landscape, its wildlife and wonderful history. I'm also Writer in Residence at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

2 Comments

Steve Schwartzman

January 5, 2012 at 5:03 pm Reply

You may be interested in the origin of the word forest and its connection to the word foreign:

http://wordconnections.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/cant-see-the-forest-for-the-trees/

I find it strange that someone would have put up antlers in a tree this way, but in rural (and no longer so rural) parts of Texas people also put such things on their fences and gates. My own recent take on antlers was quite different:

http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/a-different-white/
- Jo Woolf
  
  January 5, 2012 at 5:41 pm
  
  Thank you for your comment and contribution – very interesting.