Walking along the manmade ridge adjacent to two ponds within my local Nature Reserve, I envisaged the sunlight producing some lovely photography.

I took a few shots on top of the ridge, then realised whilst standing at the lower side that the up-facing angle would create excellent visual contrasts.

The right-side shows a Basket Willow (Osier) in winter. There are green mosses and sedge plants dotted across the ridge too.

Interestingly the Basket Willow is planted in this Nature Reserve specifically for “effluent treatment.. for water purification..” due to the fact that..

“.. Salix viminalis is a known hyperaccumulator of cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, petroleum hydrocarbons, organic solvents, MTBE, TCE and byproducts, selenium, silver, uranium, and zinc, and as such is a prime candidate for phytoremediation.” – quotation directly from Wikipedia.

As regards positive climate change, manmade global warming, resources efficiency and my conservation activism interests – the natural purification synergy adds to the communication value through these artistic representations.

Here is the “Yellow” version of the same photograph:

I like this version equally, 10000Kx2.

Then we have 3800Kx2 providing a much cooler looking image, immediately below:

Here is my sketched version in blue ink pen on A4 paper.  This version is digitally edited to create a black and white version:

My sketching style includes swirls and squiggles using numerable continuous lines to give the landscape effect.

It’s fair to write my Osier branches are mostly oscillations and overlays with fewer definitive straight lines.

Again, as with my most recent works, the use of Kelvin colour scale adjustments is purposed to represent our need to reverse manmade global warming.