Leafless Trees in Crow Island Woods

Hiking through Crow Island Woods yesterday, the undergrowth looked particularly

 uninspiring and the landscape barren. It had snowed heavily, but the slight increase

 in temperature caused the snow to melt so everything was muddy and generally ugly.

 Then I remembered an idea I had a while back about arboreally typology, fusing Harriet 

and Bernd Becher's style with the typical sort of subject that I photograph, so I picked 

an interesting looking tree and photographed it composed straight through the middle 

two-thirds of the frame, with the center of the tree in focus. A dense tangle of spiny red 

vines, slush, and dead branches were a nuisance, but each time I managed 
to maneuver through.

   

Winnetka

Taken in February 2013