New Photos | Spring 2025
One reason I like to write these quarterly retrospectives is that they give me a chance to look back at the photos I’ve taken and reflect on them — and sometimes even relive those moments. Not every picture is what I’d call portfolio-worthy, but if I share it here, it’s because it connects with me in some way. Without these seasonal posts, many of these photos would at best have a brief moment on social media, or at worst, never see the light of day at all.
Welcome to the sixth post in my “New Photos” series, this time featuring some of the images I took in spring 2025. Alongside a couple of short trips to the Welsh mountains and the Cornish coast, I spent a lot of time working on my woodland photography. I wanted to teach myself to look deeper, building interesting compositions from the shapes and patterns in and around the canopy, rather than just taking tree portraits or relying on fog to create atmosphere and depth.
March to May 2025 - Spring 2025 collection.
Before getting to my woodland images, I thought I’d start with my early spring visit to Eryri (Snowdonia). Because of scheduling challenges, I ended up wandering these majestic mountains in that seasonal no-man’s land where it’s too warm for winter conditions but still too early for any real spring colour. Even so, I made the most of it and had a great time exploring the landscape, hiking the hills, and photographing this stunning national park.
I’ve shared just a handful of the photos I took here, but if you’d like to see more from this trip, I put together a dedicated post covering my time there. You can find it below.
Photographing the woodland in Spring
As I mentioned earlier, alongside looking for more traditional woodland scenes, I also made a point to seek out interesting shapes and textures in and around the trees, especially up in the canopy. The forest I spend most of my time photographing is home to both older, gnarled trees and tall Scots pines with their straight trunks, so it offers a good variety of subjects and compositions. The tough part, as always with woodland photography, is actually finding them.
Seascapes in Cornwall
Back in April, I spent a few days on Cornwall’s south coast. It was a last-minute family getaway for some much-needed R&R in Polperro. Being early in the season — and with some pretty miserable weather (the colour in the sky in the first image was definitely the exception) — this small but usually popular fishing village was blissfully quiet during our stay.
I wasn’t there to spend loads of time with my camera, but I did pop out a couple of times and spent a few hours by the water taking pictures. I’ve posted a few of my favourites below.
Photographing the Landscape
Apart from my trip to Snowdonia, I didn’t really spend much time photographing the wider vistas or more “traditional” landscapes this spring (and so far, the same could be said for summer too!). I’m not entirely sure why, other than splitting my time between photographing London for my Timeless City project and exploring the woodland, which hasn’t left much room for anything else.
I did, however, manage to take an aerial photo with my drone in Sussex that I quite like. It was captured early one morning during a stunning cloud inversion. Underneath that drone photo, you’ll also find a few shots from a morning spent wandering the open heathland near my local woodland.
Just a quick note about the next few landscape photos. It’s a scene I photograph regularly, and it’s turned into a bit of a personal project to capture it in all seasons. I know I’ve shared similar versions many times before, but it doesn’t hurt to explain why, as it might seem a little odd to keep photographing this nice, but hardly “epic,” view.
This spot is right next to the woodland where I often shoot. Since I usually arrive before sunrise, with the woodland still dark, I’ll typically stop here for my morning coffee. Over the years, I’ve grown particularly fond of this view — sipping coffee, contemplating the world while the sun comes up. Visiting so often, through different seasons and changing conditions, I’ve built a small collection of photos of this single view. I’ve taken wide panoramas, distant layers (like the one further below), and close-up shots of the treeline. I may one day post them here as a dedicated project, but for now, here’s the handful I captured this spring.
The London Cityscape
I purposely choose not to share new Timeless City work in these “new photo” blog posts. I think it’s because I see that project as something separate from my usual colour work, and I want to give it its own space on my website. During the spring months, I spent a lot of time in London photographing for this series, but still managed to take a few colour cityscape images as well.
The view of St Paul’s and the Millennium Bridge is by no means unique — it’s a composition I’ve shot countless times over the years and never really been happy with. Until now. I’m incredibly pleased with the photo below. The texture in the sky and water, and the subtle light across the scene, all work together to complement the dominant front-to-back architectural subject.
Another common theme running through much of my cityscape work is the use of the 5x4 portrait aspect ratio. It’s something I started experimenting with a year or two ago, and now I’ve built up a growing collection of London cityscape photos shot this way.
As I mentioned earlier, this is the sixth edition of my New Photos series. It probably deserves a dedicated home on my site someday, but for now, you can browse the previous releases by clicking the thumbnails below.
As ever, feel free to drop a comment below, as it’s always good to hear your thoughts about the pictures I take and how they might resonate with you.
Until next time,
Trevor