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Waiting For Spring

Waiting For Spring

These old trees, planted in St.John's Gardens in Liverpool city centre 160 years ago, turn their weary heads towards the Winter morning sunlight, and wait ...
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These old trees, planted in St.John's Gardens in Liverpool city centre 160 years ago, turn their weary heads towards the Winter morning sunlight, and wait patiently for Spring.
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NIKON D7100

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Aperture 8/1 ISO 800 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 700/10

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Jan, 2017

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Beautiful gnarly branches, and beautiful in black and white!

Thank you, Jess. This was an easy B&W conversion, as there was almost no colour in the scene to start with :)

Wonderful in b&w - those branches look like my daughters' hair in the morning!!

Her name isn't Twiggy by any chance?? Thanks, Suz.

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