Stand of trees, Ynys Hir, Ceridigion

After a pleasing but all too quick nights break to fabulous Aberystwyth we decided to stop en route back to Shropshire at Ynys Hir RSPB reserve. This proved to be a fabulous idea, lots of brilliant wildlife and miles and miles of walks through woods, around lakes and beside flooded fields. Highly highly recommended if you want a blast of fresh.

This stand of Scot's pines just stood out as the perfect blip for the day, I hid the sun behind one of the trunks as I am not very keen on the sunburst effect of shooting towards the sun.

I very rarely use the "straight out of the camera" line (although a high proportion of my photos are taken on my mobile phone which is of course straight out of the camera) as I always like to have a fiddle around in Photoshop to see what can be improved but on this occasion apart from my usual resize and sharpen that was definitely the case.