Really good structure. I imagine it took a bit of finding.
Oddly enough and a bit annoyingly for me, it was taken right at the side of the car in a layby at the side of the busy main road.
I had gone to this wooded area which I knew was looking very autumnal, got all my gear out and happily trudged around in the woods and boggy undergrowth for several miles and about 5 hours. I took lots of shots and really enjoyed myself, but realised I wasn't getting any worthwhile compositions, the wood was just too dense and with the fine detail of the lichen covering all the trees, there was actually too much detail to capture, it was sort of visual overload. So eventually after many hours of trying my best, I gave up and lugged all my gear back to the car, happy but a bit disappointed in the fact that even though there appeared to be so much beautiful autumn colour everywhere, there seemed to be nothing that looked any good on the review screen, because the wood was dense I just couldn't isolate anything and there was no view through it. So I was having to stop right down to try and hold DoF, but everything then looked too soft due to
diffraction - so the long and short of it was, that I just couldn't get anything usable, no matter what I tried.
So eventually I got back to the car, put the gear away and got in and started the engine, then happened to look across the road and saw this scene through the windscreen. I realised that I could now isolate the scene as I wanted to from where I now was, due to the clear view across the road to the edge of the trees, so I got all the gear back out of the car, set up the camera and tripod etc right at the side of the car and took the above shot.
When I got home and reviewed my days efforts, all the other shots were soon dispatched to that great big digital dust bin in the sky and this 'no effort' shot, turned out to be the keeper.
- I am sure there must be a moral to this tale somewhere
Dave