AWARDS: ENGLAND / WILTSHIRE / LAKE DISTRICT / WALES / SCOTLAND / COAST OF S.W. ENGLAND / COAST / STORMS / LAKES & MOUNTAINS / WINTER LANDSCAPES / DESERTS / ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY / BRITISH BIRDS 1 / BRITISH BIRDS 2 / BRITISH MAMMALS / BRITISH INSECTS / WORLD BIRDS / WORLD MAMMALS / NATURE
BEECH CLUMP AND STAR TRAILS
These beech trees stand on the edge of Salisbury Plain with a good northern aspect, needed for star trails. I photographed them in March before they were in leaf, making one hundred 30-second exposures. However, the length of the star trails was limited by mist fogging my lens as the temperature dropped. I like the way the tips of the beech branches, where new leaf buds are forming, appear red in my torchlight.
F/3.5, 100 30-second exposures blended in Photoshop, ISO 400
Accepted: PSM (Malaysia) 2014, Cheltenham 2014, Tallaught (Ireland) 2014
