Beech Grove
J’s borrowed the car for the week, and I was due to be at my parents house mid afternoon for the last round of this years Christmas present swapping.
That’s a 3.3mile walk (and about an hour if you take the hills into account) according to google maps. That route is rather boring though so I went the long way round, through some local park/woodland, through a cemetry, then another park – all in all I took 2 hours 40 minutes.
I wasn’t exactly powerwalking though, and I did stop several times to take photos. Such as the above. It’s actually two exposures, shot handheld and realigned in post-processing, then carefully masked to highlight the beech leaves and spots of sunlight on the trunks.
It doesn’t look too bad at this size, but if you look at the original file you can see I didn’t *quite* rotate it accurately enough – but given that Gimp doesn’t let you onionskin while rotating this is as close as I can get.