This time of year go out and have that stroll in the woods or through your local park and see the wanders of autumn. This is a fantastic time if you are one to enjoy taking photographs of landscapes and views of our countryside. As a corporate photographer working in London and the surrounding areas this does not usually allow me to go and photograph scenery like this as an assignment with my day to day working environment. But I make the effort to go and explore with camera in hand not only to give me some well needed exercise but adds to my portfolio of images that can be useful to have at some point later.

One of my favourite ways of shooting these scenes is to use the strong backlight that the sun has to offer. Shooting into the sun but slightly hiding it from the camera lens to reduce flare creates a glow effect on the trees.This shines through to the foreground to highlight areas but still leaves a great deal of the image in a darkened tranquillity with depth and shape. Notice how on some of these the contrasting reflections and the detailed shadows on the ground really add to the feel of the photograph.

Late September and October the evenings start to draw in and the sun becomes low in the sky. This creates some of the long and moody shadows later in the afternoon that make these images so interesting.