The photos were taken in the grounds of Waddesdon House (I think) and are a bit of a jigsaw in terms of texture and colour.

I like it that individual photographs can have a vibrant colour or apparent texture that would be washed out in a single frame, but then they are sometimes muted in the process of patching together to balance stuff. This images sees the differences quite clearly in the differing tones between the trees, where the sky varies from sea blue to white. Yes, I darkened the edges of foliage in the process at points but also, that has such an individual quality to it I don't mind it here.

The shape of foliage can be easily doctored to hide transitions in a lot of instances but here I preferred the shapes to look artificial at times. The shadowy dark of the leaves in the sky is partly created from increasing the strength of the sky as well as pumping things up by other means. That heaviness of form and colour is what makes it as an individual piece, though I suspect it might turn some people off. You might see the sense of it better in the thumbnail of the picture. The parts have a mechanical component look to them. Recently I've been looking at Braque and Leger paintings where the arrangement of things in the world are subjected to the design of the artist on a flat surface (while taking into account the arrangement on a flat surface) so that helps me appreciate the logic of such an exercise.