349/366 On hearing the word intimacy, we mostly think about a special and often romantic closeness between two conscious beings, but one can also know a place or landscape intimately. I’ve often read that getting to know a place by returning time and again allows one to find more imaginative compositions and make better images. This year has been one in which I’ve been able to test this idea. Unable to travel, I have returned to the local forests time and again to photograph and gotten to know them much better. For example, where the clouds pass through and get stuck in the forest when the sky sits low in the valley, where the pine trees are that make such graphic images and where the clearings are that show the Autumn colours the best. When one really looks, one can also find intimate scenes. Some of these are quite static, others that are in constant flux and can disappear in a matter of minutes.