346/366 Often in forest or woodland photography one goes to a lot of effort to find clean and tidy compositions. I find myself doing the same, but decided for a few shots to embrace the apparent chaos that is nature and avoid the order that we humans search for. In these two cases I think it worked out very well – there is a lot going on in the photos, but the compositions retain a kind of harmony, which is just what I was hoping for.
Post script – I gave up on my tripod between these two images, as it was such a pain trying to work it with one hand while holding an umbrella in the other. To get to reasonable shutter speeds in the dark and misty forest I decided to push the HP5+ I was shooting to 1600 ISO. For a two stop push I am happily surprised that the image turned out so free of grain.