I set out to capture the trees around the ancient Wayland's Smithy burial chamber.

I was intrigued how the bark that had been carved by bad boys, young lovers etc had healed over the years - And the resulting texture.

So this lead to a series of 'up the trunk' shots! I liked this one with the spring leaves the best.

Some idea of the intense effort required for this sort of picture can be got by looking at this SP of the photographer ;-)