Forest Edges (Les Bords de la Forêt)

This selection of images also started life as a project for On Landscape, as another series of Boring Postcards, this time in monochrome and taken at the edges of Swiss forests where there are often complex thickets, but also areas where the trees and understory are actively managed.  All have been taken while walking through the Swiss countryside, mostly in the plateau region, but also in the Jura, pre-Alps and Alps.  Searching out compositions from this complexity has the advantage that it can inspire focus on your surroundings as you walk.   Some have an element that stands out; others do not.   Some have foreground interest and depth, others a rather flat plane.  Some are rather complex, others have only relatively simple elements.  As before, this is only a selection of the images, more may be found in the book here.

 

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