These trees stand beside a pond near my parent's house.  They grow as twins, alone by the side of a hill.  I watch them change whenever I visit my family - new, fresh buds, fall leaves, ice and snow coating the branches.  I have always enjoyed their shape and poise.

One day, while visiting my family for Christmas, I walked past the trees early in the morning.  There was old snow on the ground, and the bare branches were pure white in the shade of the hill.  I felt lost in the pale colour of their bark, and the shapes that the web of branches formed.  I set up my camera on the hard snow and photographed them quickly before the sun reached them, twins alone and frozen on a winter's morning.

I have created two interpretations of this scene.  The Colour Photograph is a match to the original slide, while the Black and White Photograph is a second interpretation in monochrome.

This photograph won a Merit Award in B&W Magazine's 2008 Single Image Contest Awards Issue, Landscape/Nature Category.  (Dec, 2007)

Brilliant Branches (B&W): Near Princeton, BC, 2004