The same year that I started planting Paradise Wood, a new forest and centre for forestry research in Oxfordshire, I started recording a view of the former arable farm from the nearby vantage point of the Wittenham Clumps. 2015 is the 19th year of photographing the same view of the landscape, albeit with some gaps… Read More
A growing woodland 2012
The same year that I started planting Paradise Wood, I started recording a view of the former arable farm from a nearby vantage point – 2012 is the 17th year. Read More
Watching a forest grow
Watching a forest grow with a long-term photomonitoring project. Watch the video of the first 17 years. Read More
Bird’s eye view of a growing woodland
I recently came across a bird’s eye view of the farmland at College Farm in Southern Oxfordshire, before I had designed and started the planting of two new woodlands: Paradise Wood and Neptune Wood. The aerial photograph, taken in 1991, clearly shows that College Farm was an arable desert. Wheat was grown right up to… Read More
Transforming the landscape
In 1995 I took a series of panoramic photos and made sketches to explore how Paradise Wood, the new woodland that I was creating for the Northmoor Trust, would fit in the landscape of the future. I was developing Paradise Wood as a new woodland and a centre for forestry research. My vision was to… Read More
Talking walnuts with Roger Deakin
I met the late environmental broadcaster and writer Roger Deakin (b. February 11th 1943 and d. August 19th 2006) when he came to visit the walnut trials I had established at Paradise Wood in Oxfordshire. He was researching for his book, Wildwood: a journey through trees, that would become his last, published in 2007. Roger… Read More
