Fallen trees

I've been taking photographs of fallen trees in the Chilterns since 2003. For one fallen tree in particular, I have been snapping multiple shots from the same viewpoint all this time at various times of the year.  It's visible here:

(tip - click on any pic to see full size)

It's difficult to give an idea of the scale, but it was a large specimen.  Indeed, it was visible from space for some time, as this Google Earth image from 2004 shows:

  

The exact location is: 51.749130°  -0.770632°

One problem with taking pictures in a forest is that you can't see the tree for the wood (!) - it's impossible to stand back.  So instead I set up a tripod fairly close to it and take about a dozen shots.

The resulting sweep of individual pics are cunningly stitched together to make panoramas which, although they bear little relation to how it's perceived, can be eyecatching.  Here's one from its first winter:

 

 

 From the second spring:

...and this is what it looked like around 7 years later:

And there are other fallen beasts - another sample: