Framing & Leading Lines

This photo might look like three trees together at first glance, but in reality, it's one tree that was split in half, with a second tree further behind it. While on my walk, I saw a tree that had been struck by lightning, and thought its unique shape would be a great use of framing.

Upon seeing this peculiar arrangement of trees, I noticed that it made somewhat of a little house around the tree. The fallen tree at the bottom acts as a floor, the two trees on either side are the walls, and the branch with its leaves resembles a roof.

While on my walk through the woods, I noticed multiple pinecones scattered across the ground. This one caught my eye, because I was curious as to how it was able to fall in such a peculiar place. It fit neatly underneath the tree branches that surrounded it, which formed a small window that I used to frame the pinecone.

Prior to taking this photo, I took a photo of a sidewalk that was leading down a hill. The tree in this photo was in that first photo, and I thought an interesting way to get a different perspective of the shot would be to focus on one thing in the previous photo, and take a not so traditional leading lines photo. 

I thought this photo would be an interesting take on leading lines, because even though there isn't just one single line, the tree stumps create a pattern that draws the reader into the photo, just like a line would.

I encountered multiple bridges on my walk through the woods, but I found this one to be the most intriguing. It was the longest and thinnest of them all, and the way it ends at the base of a tree gives off the illusion that the line continues out of the photo.