SOMERSET LEVELS 459 – POLLARDED WILLOW (MONO + COLOUR)
May 13, 2020 9 Comments
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Pollarded Willow, shorn its true, but still very much alive. More about the practice of pollarding, and about these Levels in general, can be found in my first Somerset Levels post .
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Technique: Z 6 with 70-300 Nikkor lens at 70mm; 400 ISO; Lightroom, starting at the Camera Neutral v2 profile; Silver Efex Pro 2, starting at the Cool Tones 2 preset and slightly restoring colour; Queen’s Sedge Moor, on the Somerset Levels south of Wells; 26 Apr 2019.
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Lovely textures.
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Glad they get to you! 🙂
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Looks like pretty severe cutback. Hope the willow appreciates it and regenerates.
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Oh yes, they always regenerate, no problem at all! 🙂
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Pretty brutal pollarding!
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Yes, certainly, but this is commonplace here, and the trees always grow back to their full splendour.
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Wow! I would’ve thought that they would’ve come out really ugly.
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No, they just get bushier and bushier crowns, and they look fine. I’ve taken many pictures of willows on the Levels, and most of them will have been pollarded. Regular pollarding is the thing. Problems can arise otherwise, with danger for example of the resulting top heavy trees collapsing.
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OK. I know very little about it, so I’ll take your word for it. I know that when it’s done properly the results are actually quite attractive.
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