Thanks again everyone
Hi Dave.
A lone tree is usually cause for sadness because trees rarely grow as single plants. They've evolved as communities, such as forests and woods and swamps. To see the history of this single tree can only be sorrowful, whatever our cultural aesthetics demand and delude.
Yes Richard I agree, it is sad to see when things change so abruptly and especially when you have been going to the same place often enough and to the point where you have formed a deep attachment to it, so that when it does change and by whatever means be they natural or due to the interfering hand of man, then yes it does make you feel very sad indeed. But oddly enough that can sometimes be a good thing as well as being bad, because if you then photograph the scene again but using that emotional upset and your feelings of attachment to how it used to be, then it can sometimes help you to produce an image that goes much deeper than being just a record shot of the scene - sorry if this all sounds a bit garbled and nothing more than an outpouring of emotional claptrap, but I am sure you will understand what I mean
PS- I think Dave's photographs are some of the very best on LuLa.
Richard, now you are making me feel very humble indeed and a little embarrassed and I am sure there are plenty of other photographers showing their work on here who are far better then me - but hey, photography isn't a competition as far as I'm concerned and more about trying to scratch the itch that we all have here and that is the need to create something to the best of our abilities. So if this has led to you liking what I am doing, then that is an amazing bonus for me and I thank you so much for being willing to take the time to say this
Dave
