Tim Smalley

Serenity in the woods.

by Tim Smalley

For photographers who sense there is more to the woods than the epic view. Years of returning to the same quiet woods, distilled into unhurried notes on seeing, composing and editing, and essays on why the making matters more than the picture.

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A tighter woodland frame, a leaning trunk among uprights, an oak lower right, low evening sun on the foliage behind.
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The photograph I didn't make in time

Serenity in the Woods, Issue #7 I was in a wood I am still getting to know, at work on a composition, when the light came through for a few minutes and caught the trees behind the one I was framing. I knew something in the picture was not quite right, and I could not say why. Then the light went, and in the quiet after it I saw the better picture I had been missing: the same trees, held tighter. Too late for the light. It did not come back. This piece is about what I have come to make of an...

20 days ago

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The rut that arrives with your best work

23 days ago

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The jar in the cupboard

about 1 month ago

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The award I cannot remember winning

about 1 month ago

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The reason I go into the woods

about 1 year ago

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Transforming woodland clutter into art

over 1 year ago

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Finding beauty in the slow moments

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