Autumn Light, Pewsey, Wiltshire

Hollie Latham Hucker, Technique editor

Apple iPhone SE, back camera, 4.15mm, 1/100sec at f/2.2, ISO 32 They say the best camera is the one you have with you and in this instance it was my iPhone SE. While it wouldn’t usually be my camera of choice, if I hadn’t had it on me I wouldn’t have been able to capture the beautiful autumnal light streaming through the trees in this scene that had unfolded in front of me.

We were returning home from a dog walk up on Martinsell Hill in Wiltshire, when we came across this stunning scene. It was mid afternoon and the sun was making its descent ready for the dark evening. The low angle of the sun created these sparkling shafts of lights that shone through the gaps in the avenue of trees we were driving through. We stopped the car and grabbed our phones. It was a narrow, muddy lane and my Wellington boots were in the back of the car, so I had to make do with taking this image through the windscreen. I wasn’t sure if the camera would even be able to record the details we could see by eye so I was pleasantly surprised with the result.

A few moments later the angle of the light changed and the scene no longer existed. With photography, timing is everything and you don’t need the latest and most expensive equipment to take a perfect photo. It’s all about recording moments in time wherever you may be.