Tess Barnes

Photos: More than 5 years as a photographic recorder for Woodland Trust Phenology study. This involves taking photos of the same trees from the same angle and position each month and trying to capture such phenomena as leaf burst, first leaf, first flower, ripe fruit, turning leaf colour, full leaf colour, first leaf fall and bare tree. The macro modes on my Olympus C5000Z and Nikon P80 help in this task enormously. The weird looks I get add to the amusement factor, so many people apparently can’t get their head around the idea of photographing a tree just for the sake of it, not because there is something more interesting in it.

Written word: I wrote my first novella at school and I haven’t really stopped since. I’m working on becoming more focused and playing around with Liquid Story Binder to help with outlines and article writing.

Work: Freelance front end web development based on HTML4, CSS and PHP. Recently I’ve been playing with HTML 5 and CSS 3 but I haven’t yet cracked the perfect system across all browers, even allowing for ditching the ‘one look to rule them all’ philosophy. I build whole websites under the trading name ‘Crataegus Design’.

Play: Tai chi, gardening, walking, mouldy old stone spotting, winemaking.

Home: Happily married to a very supportive and stubbornly offline Nick.

All in the middle of the beautiful Midlands countryside.