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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMystical Photos of the Enchanting English Forests of Wistman's Wood
Aptly titled Mystical, Burnells ongoing series transports the viewer to an extraordinary world thats largely been left to grow wild. His images show how the ancient trees have spread their branches and twisted their roots around giant granite boulders, while a thick carpet of moss covers the entire forest floor.
I love to try and produce an atmosphere in my images and Wistmans is one of the most atmospheric places Ive visited, Burnell told My Modern Met. The woodland is also notoriously difficult to photograph and I love a challenge. To capture his images, Burnell visited the area around 20 times over the last year, trying to capture the perfect image. The photographer reveals that the best time to visit is at blue hour, the hour just before sunrise. At this time, Burnell was able to capture the forest when enveloped in a layer of hazy, magical mist.
https://mymodernmet.com/wistmans-wood-mystical-photos-neil-burnell/
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)Thank you for sharing!
StarryNite
(9,443 posts)Other worldly. Thank you for sharing.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Thanks for sharing !!
oasis
(49,376 posts)spin
(17,493 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I'm sure I saw Treebeard in the background somewhere...
Hekate
(90,645 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Take me away!!!!
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magicarpet
(14,144 posts)Have no fear. I moonlight as an Air Force pilot and fly DC -10s.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Wow, ok then, lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
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Hotler
(11,416 posts)Once upon a time in a distant land on the edge of the deep blue waters and the granite walls of the....
That is very cool, thanks for sharing.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)Just kidding, that void would best be depicted by a shot of black outer space.
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Great shots and it made me curious what species of trees are shown. From Wikipedia:
The trees are mainly pedunculate oak, with occasional rowan, and a very few holly, hawthorn, hazel, and eared-willow. Tree branches are characteristically festooned with a variety of epiphytic mosses and lichens and, sometimes, by grazing-sensitive species such as bilberry and polypody. On the ground, boulders are usually covered by lichens and mossy patches frequent species include Dicranum scoparium, Hypotrachyna laevigata, Rhytidiadelphus loreus and Sphaerophorus globosus and, where soil has accumulated, patches of acid grassland grow with heath bedstraw, tormentil and sorrel. In places protected from livestock, grazing-sensitive plants such as wood sorrel, bilberry, wood rush and bramble occur. A fringe of bracken surrounds much of the wood, demarcating the extent of brown earth soils. The wood supports approximately 120 species of lichen.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistman%27s_Wood
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yonder
(9,663 posts)All of these species are part of the ancient Druidic symbolic language of tree Ogham.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)Beautiful! Thank you!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I see a round terrier's head in the bush below the left of the tree in the 2nd pic.
very strange and unusual trees, have no idea of what they are. The knobs remind me of the old old oaks one sees around my area.
BobsYourUncle
(120 posts)I don't think I would come back the same man.
sakabatou
(42,148 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Indeed!
My same thought - I was thinking Treebeard has to be in there somewhere.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Me likey the lichen.
certainot
(9,090 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)burrowowl
(17,638 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)Thank you for posting....
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)so "forests of dartmoor" is wide of the mark. This patch of woodland is very small:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wistman's_Wood
BobsYourUncle
(120 posts)Know where youre going, and how to get back...and eat first.
CommonSenseMom
(43 posts)Thank you for posting these. I find them inspirational. I do graphics (lots of book covers) and may have to contact Mr. Burnell about permissions. Wow.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Very enchanting!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)These are great & spooktacular.
calimary
(81,220 posts)...the forest primeval...
Gorgeous, and almost magical!
THANKS for posting these, demmiblue!
murielm99
(30,733 posts)they are underwater. I expected to see fish swimming in the foreground.
They are beautiful. Thank you.
yonder
(9,663 posts)mconnors
(19 posts)Love it, brings my imagination to a whole different world!
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)A shame that I had only recently discovered that phenomena a couple years ago where basically, it would be almost completely "dark" to our eyes but the camera "sees" (and records) the scene with quite a bit of ambient (albeit bluish) light.
(and it's not just an hour before sunrise but can be an hour after sunset too)