Portmore Reservoir

[BrianN]

Good morning everyone,
Yesterday I took a walk around Portmore Reservoir, we had some snow flurries, this helped to create some nice flat conditions.
With this in mind I decided to photograph in monochrome as this weather suits this...and this is my current assignment with The School of Photography.

As I walked around the reservoir through the woodland, I came to a large area that had previously been a pine tree plantation, it had recently been cleared of the pine trees allowing me to see a different perspective of the silver birch trees.

I was pleased to see that none of the native species of trees had been removed.



"Reaching"

I love this pair of trees and to me it conveys the tree is reaching over to get some water. I used a long exposure to simplify the water which helps to bring out the structure of these beautiful trees.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-50mm F2.8 G
• 46.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 30 sec
• ISO 100

"White Line"

I loved this dusting of snow running along the edge of the reservoir, it creates a lovely leading line back to the trees.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 24-50mm F2.8 G
• 26.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 30 sec
• ISO 100

"Family Affair"

This was the first composition that caught my eye, standing tall on the edge of the clearing.

I thought it resembled a family out for a walk.

• ILCE-7M4
• E 50-400mm F4.5-6.3 A067
• 87.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

"Pulled in Both Direction"

I saw this arrangement of the branches which conveyed as if the Y shaped branch was being pulled in both directions from the branches of either side.

• ILCE-7M4
• E 50-400mm F4.5-6.3 A067
• 345.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

"Dysfunctional"

With all the different structure of this arrangement of trees gave a dysfunctional look to them...you can also see where I picked out the composition of the previous image.

• ILCE-7M4
• E 50-400mm F4.5-6.3 A067
• 102.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100