Nice! Your forests look like tended gardens, like a park. Ours are seriously undergrown, so dense your can barely see, hardly walk and no paths at all. Just undergrowth.
24C / 75F is a dream temperature for me! If past years’ patterns hold true by late July to August it’ll be 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than it was today (yesterday now, actually) – 98F to 102F. With humidity… not looking forward to that. I’m already wanting November! LOL
Do keep them coming 
It’s the point of this thread after all.
That second one is awesome, great light and color
Thanks! I was shooting handheld, so in order to defeat the wind I had to speed up shutter and raise ISO. While my camera is definitely better with noise than they used to be, I can still see some at 320 (if I squint and look hard enough). I guess I need to go back and use my tripod. 
We are very fortunate in Scotland to have a guaranteed “right to roam”, this is in contrast to England where there is no access to 80% of the land.
The Forestry Commission, who look after the forests, are good at providing tracks through the forests, hence the lack of undergrowth. There are wilder parts, that are dense and impassible. but do provide better chances of seeing wildlife (I am still on the lookout for capercaillie), which I have heard but never seen.
In my part of the US, there’s virtually no public land that’s suitable for personal recreational purposes. If it’s public, it’s either National Forest, right-of-way or some other type associated with a specific use. All the rest is private, corporate, commercial, etc. and therefore off-limits. So if you want to stay off “owned” land, you’re limited to parks / recreation areas and state / national forests.* It’s not like you’ll find out west with BLM land (Bureau of Land Management) that’s available for non-structured recreation. Just doesn’t exist here.
The view of “recreation” in my part of the US is, frankly, very myopic: Hunting, fishing and maybe off-road motorized sports. That’s about it, and just about every state park is solely one or more of those, plus a little family / playground / camping emphasis. Nothing else. To be fair, the snow skiing industry is pretty much out luck around here. 
But it seems to never enter anyone’s mind that maybe someone would just like to get out and enjoy the outdoors (as opposed to being merely outside) without being overrun by ATVs, boats, etc. all too often operated by beer-swilling, loud-yelling, trash-throwning indigenous types…
* Speaking of forests and how they look, here’s a typical “through the window” view (from Google Maps) of a typical forest in my area:
See what I mean about dense? It pretty much stays that way as you walk (I mean, hack) your way through it.
Actually, this shot is actually a little atypical in that the vast majority of forests are almost solely pine. That’s a rather unusual spot of deciduous trees.
Oh what I’d give for some wide open spaces, hills and variety of views!
We get lots of pine here too, it is the go-to forestry cash crop. Having said that, we are now getting much more mixed forestry being planted with many more native trees, such as Scots pine.
My favourite trees are not in forests, though. The first is the Fortingall yew, which may be up to 5,000 years old. It would definitely have been around in Roman times, and had such a large girth that the locals made a tunnel through it in order to get to church
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
What a wizard photograph 
I personally believe if the ISO is not too high to lower your dynamic range, noise is completely fine, unless the end result is a very clean picture of course. Is carrying a tripod a big enough hassle to get a little less noise?
I am reminded of the John Peel quote: Life has surface noise. Applicable to records but photography too I think
I wish we had this in my country. Everywhere you go you see forested private properties and most times they are all fenced, even if abandoned and not being used for anything.
There are still restrictions, where there is young livestock, fields with crops in, ecologically fragile areas etc., but we can roam most areas.
Time to come and pay us a visit? You could try wild camping or wild swimming.
I had my tripod with me, right there in my backpack. I just didn’t use it. I think I was assuming there was really nothing there, subject-wise, worth the “trouble” of setting it up. It’s a swamp, after all.
Re: noise… Yeah, I hear lots of folks say a little noise is OK, even desirable. I understand that, but TBH when I look (i.e., pixel-peep) and see any noise, I just don’t like it. I don’t see noise with my naked eyes, so why have it in my images? I’m not trying to make my images look like film, so why noise?
Just my preference I guess.
Thanks
We have nothing old here… except our neglected and crumbling public infrastructure, that is.
I remember a YT video Adam Karnacz did about “Medusa”, a specific very old oak tree he was looking for to photograph. Louisiana had old-growth forests a couple a centuries ago but they’re all long gone, cut and replaced by quick-growing long leaf and loblolly pine.
That’s why many of the trees in our forests grow in rows. Replanted. You can see it in aerial imagery…
Even withered flowers can be colourful
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Withered flower 'tog™ strikes again!
Looks wonderful, maybe one day I have a friend living and working near Edinburgh so it ends up becoming a little easier.
Yes of course In the end it’s a very personal and subjective thing.
