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The Old Pollard

Savernake Forest · Autumn

A veteran oak, its trunk heavily colonised by moss and fern, stands among late-turning beech in a managed broadleaf woodland in Savernake Forest. The mossy base and broken scaffold branches suggest considerable age, possibly pollard origin. Soft, diffuse November light suppresses shadow and allows the warm amber canopy to read cleanly against the textured bark.

Camera
Sony α7R IV · Sigma 24-70mm F2.8 DG DN Art
Settings
1/2s · f/10 · ISO 100 · 67mm
Captured
8 November 2025
Shape
portrait
Appears in
Autumn Woodland Photography

About the prints

For me, printing is the end of the photographic journey. You've done all the hard work, edited the files and reviewed them. Seeing the photograph come out of the printer is the reward. The depth of colour from a printed photograph beats seeing it on a screen a hundred times over. Bring the story and this experience home with you with a fine art print from my portfolio.

Bluebells at Sunrise Printed on A4
Bluebells at Sunrise printed on A4 Fotospeed paper, editioned, titled & signed.

Each fine art print from my website is printed by me at home on my Canon Pro-1000 professional printer. To ensure the best prints possible, I use Fotospeed paper. This is archival grade paper, ensuring accurate colour representation. I then sign, edition and package the prints and get them posted to you. With this in mind, please allow up to 10 days for dispatch. If there will be any further delay to this, I will let you know via email - such as if I am on a trip away and it will be longer for dispatch.

If you do have specific requirements please let me know via the contact me form, and I will endeavour to solve any queries or requests. For example, if you need the print quickly for a special occasion, just let me know, and I will try my best to make it happen!

Bluebells at sunrise printed a4 with the edition number in the bottom left corner
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Why there's a border

The print will come with a white border around the photo to allow space for editioning and signing. This will also make it easier when you come to frame & mount your photograph, giving some flexibility. I sign the prints in an archival permanent marker, so it'll never fade.

Signing and editions

Every print is signed by hand in the lower border. Where a photograph is issued as a limited edition, each print is numbered, and once the last number has sold I never print that photograph at that size again. I print, sign and pack every order myself.

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A temperature inversion smothers the Thames valley near Abingdon at first light, leaving trees in full autumn-to-winter transition stranded above a slow-moving sea of cold fog. A frosted meadow breaks clear to the right, its pale green a quiet counterpoint to the amber and burgundy crowns emerging from the mist. The aerial perspective dissolves conventional landscape geometry, reducing the scene to colour, texture, and atmosphere.
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A temperature inversion settles across the Thames Valley near Wallingford, submerging hedgerows and fields beneath a continuous white plane while isolated trees in late autumn / early winter colour rise through the fog layer. Shot at low drone altitude, the diagonal ridge of emerging woodland divides the composition, giving structure to an otherwise formless sea of mist. The pale warmth catching copper and amber crowns against the cool tonal frozen ground is what lifts this from record to image.
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Low autumn sun breaks through a gap in mixed woodland in the Chilterns, Oxfordshire, casting distinct crepuscular rays between two moss-based beech trunks. A carpet of fallen leaves covers the forest floor while backlit golden foliage frames the burst of light. The mist implied by the visible rays adds depth to the receding treeline.
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A mature deciduous tree photographed directly overhead from altitude above a field near Henley-on-Thames, its bare branch structure radiating outward like a neural network against a disc of amber and ochre fallen leaves. The surrounding cropped grassland, speckled with late wildflowers, frames the canopy as a self-contained form. Captured in mid-November, the image sits at the threshold between late autumn and winter dieback.
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