Trees and roots at Hardcastle Crags

This is one of my favourite subjects to photograph - I love the shapes and textures of tree branches, bark and roots, and I'm even happier if I can include a dry stone wall too! I took this one in May 2014 on my way back to the car park from photographing bluebells.

It was a hard decision whether to leave it in colour or convert to black and white. The latter won for now, but I'll probably post the colour version as well at some point. In Lightroom I used a grad filter to adjust exposure, highlights and shadows from the wall upwards. I also increased overall contrast slightly.