There is no doubt that my passion for regimented trees comes from the direct influence of the great American landscape photography Ansel Adams. The youthful silver trees play a key role in my pursuit of a degree of order and repetition. There are times where I would like every tree to be identifiable with no masking of its neighbour, but in this case it would have been impossible to present each tree as an individual. The mass of yellow flowers presented me with the most perfect lower platform on which the trees could sit. I returned here in the high summer and everywhere was unrecognisable. There is undoubtedly a critical timing involved with all landscape photography.