About 5 weeks after the devastating bushfires that flattened the historical town of Yarloop I headed up the highway to see what inspiration Mother Nature could shed. She didn’t let me down. The native trees and shrubs were making a comeback with green shoots appearing everywhere you looked. Some trees were covered in them and others just had one or two new shoots starting to break their way through the charred bark. The colours were amazing. There is one particular stand of trees which caught my eye, they are so straight and a light colour but black around the ground. This is where I started my “Abstract Trees” series. A small collection of images of trees where I have used blur to add interest. I have stopped down (or decreased the size of my aperture) to help reduce my shutter speed to show blur when I drop my lens whilst pressing the shutter. As it was a particularly bright morning I had to use a CPL filter also, to get the effect I was after. All of these images were taken at f22 with a shutter speed between 1/10 sec and 1/15 sec. Here’s just a couple of my favourites. Click Here to see the ABC’s before and after aerial images of Yarloop.
