Woodland Sunbursts

Sunlight bursting through misty woodland creates spectacular but fleeting photo opportunities. Lee frost explains how to make sure you’re in the right place at the right time and return home with amazing images.

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IF YOU GO DOWN to the woods today–well, you might actually bag yourself some amazing images! Woodland offers great potential as a photographic subject. from close-ups of patterns, details and textures to stunning foliage colour and studies of sturdy old trees, there is something for everyone, and no two days are ever the same. However, if you want to take the top prize and scoop the creative jackpot, then no thing beats woodland on a misty morning or afternoon with golden rays of sunlight bursting through the branches. It’s such an amazing spectacle that you could almost be tempted to leave your camera packed away and just savour the moment. I did say ‘almost’ though, because there’s no way on earth a