In the sprit of breaking the rules let us give the prompt an abstract twist.

Instead photographing the trees as they are in their natural beauty let use them to create something unexpected. 

Here are a few tricks abstract landscape photographers use: 

• Stain glass effect - Shift your focal point to look though the branches focusing in the distance. 
• Mysterious and surreal effect -  try panning to blur the trees and blend the colors together vertically.  
• Distorted effect -shoot at an opposing angle to the branch.

Throw the rules out and let your creativity soar today!