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Headline: Four Seasons In One tree: Photographer Documents Cumbrian Tree

Caption: Four seasons in one tree. Photographer Carmen Norman has documented the changing seasons by shooting an Cumbrian oak tree throughout 2018. Her stunning pictures show the tree in all its glory, from being surrounded by lambs in Spring to the white out of Winter snow. Carmen explains: "The tree is near Bassenthwaite where I live. Pictures were taken this year. Winter image was Feb, Spring was late April, Summer was late July and Autumn was October, I always like to work on a project. Last year I completed a project of photographing 100 people one hundred ages. Which I put together in a book to sell for charity, so as that was finished I wanted something new. One day I was out running and I spotted the oak, standing alone in the middle of the field, with nothing but sky behind it and I thought that would make a great subject for my project. Then the beast for the east arrived and we had so much snow I was snowed in, all I could was go for a walk with the camera. My walk took me passed the tree, it was snowing heavily, the fields was white and the tree looked amazing. There was my winter image. So that was the start of the project. I would go passed several times until it was ready for the spring photo, with the added bonus of a couple of Spring lambs. For the summer image I wanted a sunset when the leaves were full and dark. I caught the tree where we had a completely clear sky with just the pink glow of the sunset. Then for autumn it was several visits until the leaves were showing there autumn colours, but without losing too many leaves. I was worried they would all blow away in last week’s storm. It took a lot of visits to get the tree how I wanted it for each season, so its just finding a tree that works and being patient for a year."

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PersonInImage: Winter Oak Tree