FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER
Tim Pearson Looking for a location to get away from the madding crowds, Tim stumbled across North Cliffe Wood on his doorstep. Immersing himself in the woodland and visiting through the year and at different times of day, Tim has grown to appreciate not only the healing therapy that photography can possess, but also how out natural world is so undervalued as a place of refuge. You wouldn’t know it was there. I didn’t until recently, but having discovered North Cliffe Wood almost on my doorstep during the first lockdown, it has now become a refuge from our increasingly mad world and a source of photographic inspiration. Importantly, what North Cliffe is teaching me is the value of returning, of seeing the same place at different times
of year, in different light, from different angles; the possibilities are limitless. North Cliffe Wood lies to the south of Market Weighton in East Yorkshire, at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds. A little-visited gem overseen by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, it was drained and cleared in the late 19th century, with many mature trees felled
in the early twenties. This has left space for birch and rowan to flourish and for young oak trees to develop and join their mature parents. At its south west corner lies a heath of heather, rush and cotton grass, which catches the low dawn sun perfectly. Of course, the wood and heath are a magnet for wildlife and its relative isolation means that all you hear is the sound of the trees, the birds and
Into the Woods (Setting Moon) - ISO 100, 24-70mm lens at 70mm, f14, 1/25 The sun was beginning to rise behind me, with the slightest illumination of the silver birch trees beginning to show, but my attention was on the setting moon. Having exposed the image to capture a clear moon, I further exposed the foreground in Lightroom to better reflect what I saw. 14 14
Landscape Magazine Spring 2021
