A World Less Seen

       Fine Art International Photography By Thomas Upton       

Forest & Woodlands: Trees, Trails & Streams

Woodlands can feel enclosed and intimate or surprisingly open and spacious. Tree trunks, branching forms, plants beneath, paths and flowing water create layers that shift with the seasons and weather. The photographs explore these variations in forest structure and light, from deep shade to bright clearings. Details of bark, leaves and fallen wood can be as expressive as a view through the trees, giving the collection a range of scales and moods. Forests are not all dense, dark or green. In these photographs, a narrow path threads through California redwoods, Vermont hills turn patchwork colors in autumn, and a wind-shaped stand of trees leans above the coast. Tropical woodland surrounds waterfalls in Tahiti, while pale granite and aging pines open up the landscape near Lake Tahoe.

A monochrome winter scene shows a narrow stream flowing through snow-covered trees in Yosemite Valley.
A low view shows fast water blurring through a rocky woodland stream bordered by roots, moss, and dense green vegetation.
A dead, sculptural tree rises from rocky ground, with living pines and clouds filling the mountain sky.
Steep striated gorge walls curve around a narrow water channel beneath moss and forest vegetation.
Fast stream curling around smooth gray stones and making white eddies among woodland.
Small white jungle waterfall with lush thick tree ferns and broad leaves.
A thin waterfall descends through lush rainforest into a shaded clearing, with palms and dense vegetation surrounding the cliff.
Thick woodland of orange, yellow and red trees fading into soft blue mountain mist.
A large upright boulder rises beside green rapids below wooded cliffs on the Spokane River.
Curving paved country road between brilliant orange and yellow deciduous trees.
Sunbeams stream through slender forest trunks above bright green groundcover in a misty coastal grove.
Coastal trail passes through leaning trees whose trunks curve over a reddish dirt path.
Rows of wind-shaped trees border open pasture along Old Saddle Road on the Big Island.
A shaded redwood forest path winds between dark trunks and bright green leaves in Muir Woods.
Stone stairs ascending through dense damp greenery and fern fronds in forest.
A quiet wooded trail winds through pale tree trunks, fallen leaves, and hazy backlight.
Fresh grass fills the forest floor while blackened tree trunks fade into misty gray background light.
A shaded Kauai pasture holds white horses beneath immense spreading trees, with green grass and layered trunks in the background.
A green valley landscape shows a footpath threading between rolling hills beneath a cloudy sky.
A massive sequoia tree rises from the forest floor with sunlight peeking around its reddish bark.
Massive sequoia tree trunks tower beside a shaded forest path with a small railing and dappled sunlight.
Closely spaced trunks and tangled branches shade the valley floor.
White snowmelt water races around branches and boulders, with forest debris crossing the stream.
Straight pale trunks rise closely together above a shaded forest floor.
An emerald river pool curves beneath thick forest, with sunlight catching bright leaves above the quiet water.
Empty road through mixed yellow, orange and red trees in the Vermont countryside.
Open rolling meadow with small white farms among vivid red and golden woodland.
The Red Road is a main thoroughfare running across the Puna district in Hawaii, so named because it was previously paved in red asphalt.
A black-and-white view looks into a massive banyan, emphasizing tangled limbs, trunks, and radiating canopy lines.
A dirt road passes beneath a canopy of golden and orange autumn trees lining both sides.