November Through the Branches

About this piece

Sunlight breaks through a dense woodland, illuminating leaf-covered ground beneath a lattice of sparsely leafed branches. In this black-and-white photograph, a fallen log leads inward from the foreground, countering the vertical rhythm of trunks and lending depth to the quiet, textured scene.

The story

November begins beneath a thinning canopy, where the ground holds the leaves the branches have released. Sunlight finds a narrow opening between the trunks and catches the curled edges of the leaf litter. A fallen tree lies along the slope, its rough surface passing from brightness into shadow. The woodland seems still, yet everywhere its shapes carry the quiet work of change.