A pale-blue summer sky high above a sunlit dappled birch wood canopy; fully-leafed green crowns atop the spindly trees competing for space and light

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Shot as part of a series of images tracking the seasonal changes to the canopy of a local birch tree wood.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: Colchester, England, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © David Davies / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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