Ever since I left the Police to start up my photography business I have always had a mischievous desire to flout the regulations, in this case those to do with photography and in particular the one that says thou shalt not blow out the highlights, had I followed that doctrine the leaves would have no coloured translucent luminosity, they would simply have been silhouetted. As it was if I had left the "blinkies" on, on the camera, the entire sky area would have been flashing black/white. Beech leaves in particular like to spread their twiggy branches in a flat plane so that all the leaves receive the same dose of sunlight. the benefit is that even with a relatively shallow depth of field everything is in sharp focus and I can choose to handhold at moderate ISO. For this I utilsed the structure of the spreading beech leaf spray like a skeletal ladder with the twigs as rungs.

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