Love those Trees

[pcgpcg]

I have attached another rainforest image. I am still trying to decide if I like the colour or black and white image...
This week we are shooting dogwood and redbud trees in the Smoky mtns. I have three weeks for this shoot.
http://www.friedmanphoto.com

I vote for the B&W version - a very compelling image. Enjoy the Great Smoky Mountains. I am shooting all next week in the Columbia Gorge, trying to get everything I can before everything leafs out.

[Chairman Bill]

From Exmoor

[muntanela]

You might do well to name the spot.  What seems to me to be a grown over and then burned over terrace could support quite a number of "historical" imaginings and moral examples.
Bruce

These woods were attacked in the past years by the beetle scolytid Ips acuminatus and by a fire. Today remain large areas of death and desolation. Since I found nearby a pole with a goat skull, as a sort of ominous sign (see the attached photo), I could  name this spot “The goat skull grove” (? . )
P.S. The embrasure was part of the second defensive line of the  Italian army. It was never used, since the austrians never broke through the front line of the Stelvio (Stilfserjoch).

[Bruce Cox]

Hi Paul

Thanks for the feedback and thoughts. I have attached another rainforest image. I am still trying to decide if I like the colour or black and white image. The density may be off a bit. I did these just before I left. I will post both and see what people think. This one was taken ten days ago on a shhot on Vancouver Island with Tim Wolcott. We had a great time. Tim has incredible passion for photography and the pursuit of the ultimate image. This week we are shooting dogwood and redbud trees in the Smoky mtns. I have three weeks for this shoot.

Steven

http://www.friedmanphoto.com

I like the color and black & white layered together:  87% color and 13% black & white.

Bruce

[Chairman Bill]

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[Jeremy Roussak]

From Exmoor

Excellent. Commonly a bit breezy there, is it?

Jeremy

[Chairman Bill]

Can be a tad on the breezy side. Typically, any trees not in a reasonably sheltered spot, tend to be a bit battered & twisted. Down in the valleys/combes, it's more sedate & pleasant

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

The second set (Beeches) looks like Exmoor, too.
Both sets of trees have real "character."

I much prefer the "breezy" ones to the sheltered ones.

[luxborealis]

Just not sure if I like the processing on this one or not; it's a B&W convo, and one of about 30 I took of this beautiful sandbar in the Merced River just 200m west of Swinging Bridge.  It's too 'something'.

Seems gorgeous to me... excellent local contrast, detail in the snow - the processing is ideal, as the photograph. Nicely done! If it's too anything, it's too Ansel Adams and I mean as a compliment!

[MattNQ]

[pcgpcg]

This poor fellow was uprooted and washed out to sea, then brought back again..

[MattNQ]

[BobDavid]

Exceptional tree photos, Matt. The first one is magnificent!

[MattNQ]

Exceptional tree photos, Matt. The first one is magnificent!

Thank you Bob

[stevenf]

I just returned from a shoot with Tim Wolcott in the Smoky Mtns area. This Dogwood tree was of particular interest to us. We got fortunate to get a heavy fog one morning and I got this image. The image taken the days before without the fog is also interesting.

Steven

http://www.friedmanphoto.com

[Jeremy Roussak]

This is glorious.

Jeremy

[MattNQ]

This is glorious.

Jeremy

Thank you Jeremy.
It is a fantastic tree, and a very stubborn one perhaps - refusing to give in to the beach-eroding waves without a fight !

[muntanela]

Female (red) and Male (the rest) in a larch branch.

[tim wolcott]

A couple new ones from the recent Smokey Mtn Natl Park trip with my friend Steven and his wife. 

[tim wolcott]

A few more from the trip.  Tim