It's funny how we can lose ourselves in a trivial task, isn't it?
Jeremy
Yes and not that I need to tell you all about this, but I am going to do anyway, but my father passed away at Christmas and since then it has been lots of 1,000 mile round trips up and down to Sheffield to sort things out and setup care for my 90 year old mother (who might yet move in with us up here, but I worry it will too isolated for her up here and away from the rest of the family) and a whole host of other accompanying problems, such as sleepless nights and uncontrolled weeping etc. You know I thought I had become immune to uncontrolled emotion due to the various things that have happened in my life over the last fifteen years or so, but how wrong could I have been - anyway, as I say you all didn't really need to know about that, other than to say this is the first time since before Christmas that I have really had the chance to just go out and lose myself in a few hours of being able to think about nothing else but photography and I got totally lost in capturing this scruffy bit of a twig against a torrent of water, but it was just so therapeutic and absorbing, I couldn't stop myself. So thank you everyone for your kind comments
Oh and yes I would have preferred a slightly loser crop as well, which is why it took me so long to compose this shot after slipping and sliding about on the side of the river bank and across rocks that seems to have been made from slippery glass, this was the best I could do without breaking my neck. But having said all that and I am not trying to make excuses here, honest, but I do actually like how it has turned out and how the fairly tight crop forces the weight of the centre of the tree (scraggy twig) onto a compositional third near to the centre upper right, which makes it feel about right to my eye for some reason.
Dave
