I made the photo below in the late afternoon of June 20--winter solstice--when I was on a poodlewalk with Maleko. As we were wandering back to the car through the bushland reserve in Waitpinga after a photo session with a medium format film camera I made the photo in passing just before dusk.
I didn't think much of it at the time, and I forgot all about it--until I uploaded the photos to check what the possibilities there were for from my recent scoping for another film-based photoshoot. This looked to be a good possibility--one worth checking out more consciously.
Even though it had been rain all day I decided to go looking for the 2 trees this afternoon. It took me 2 hours of wandering around amongst the passing showers before I finally found these 2 trees. I judged that the subject matter was an afternoon photo session rather than a morning one and that it needed soft afternoon light and a blueish sky, rather than dull light and overcast skies.