Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

This tree is one of the many icons of British landscape photography. The first picture I can find of this tree is from around 1870, taken by George Washington Wilson. He didn't take the particular composition here, but it is obvious that the tree itself is the subject. In recent times, Paul Wakefield has captured this particular aspect and it has been made famouse by Joe Cornish who has taken the view in various conditions. I was only originally going down to check out the various scots pine, I find the trees fascinating in structure and colour. However, this amazing traffic light fern presented itself right in front of the pine trees and my will power, never strong at the best of times, gave in spectacularly. I'm kinda glad I did however and, although the light wasn't spectacular, the results give the photograph a very Scottish feel (at least I see it like this quite often).