I had this photo in my head when I saw the tree for the first time in May this year. At that point I could not imagine what challenge was waiting for me. I think I was 10 times there and always something went wrong. The angle was not good enough, or the sun got covered by a cloud in the very last minute and as I finally got everything right, I had to discover that all pics where full of lens flares. So I started again and finally I made this one in the beginning of November. I don´t know if this process made me a better photographer but certainly brought me to another level and made me finally fully understanding the sentence of a photographer friend “The motif will not come to you, you have to go there and work on it”
Had to be worth the wait and hard work, a shot to be proud of.