Natural Forms, Focal lenghts and Depth of Field

The first image for my natural forms I took a few weeks ago but never got around to posting it. Its simply of an old tree that almost looks burnt out in the middle, and cork like. Although the tree is still alive with leaves (in summer). So here are a couple of pictures of it.

The next images are taken more recently, in the snow (: The first of the trees near my house as it was snowing. These images were taken with my 28-135mm zoom lens, and show focal lengths. I feel the image has a mysterious feel to it, and the snow is always beautiful. This image was taken at 135mm.


This image is at a focal length of around 80mm, of the same place.


This final image was taken at a focal length of 28mm, with the same zoom lens and of the same place.

This next set of images, taken at a different place, portray natural forms. of frozen over rivers and waterfalls. This first image is just of a shallow stream that has frozen over in the very cold weather. You could see the flowing water underneath the ice and it was around an inch thick, not that you can see this in the shot.

These next three images are of a frozen waterfall. I was quite amazed with the effects as I feel it doesn't look like England.


This final image of two icicles shows the use of depth of field. I feel this image is very naturally beautiful from the reflections on the ice reflecting back to the camera.