Exakta Varex IIa and 35mm/f:2.8 Flektogon

Malus pumila/domestica

Hiking with mum and dad.

Pivoine jaune, Gele Boompioen, Gelbe Baumpfingstrose [Paeonia lutea]

A more subdue, true to Portland rendition of this famous little tree. I am really loving the muted tones and plan on adding this one to my personal collection as a very large print.

texture

Custom Milled Oak Trim in Master Bedroom

South end of Lake Nokomis

in the brechfa forest

Palm in Palm Beach

Early evening (?). May 2008.

King Street, Newcastle NSW Australia, 5 July 2014, 3:10pm

© Matthew Ward, 2014

A sign of life in a log that was once an old Prunus tree in our garden!

Thank you all for commenting and favouring my images it is very much appreciated.

Brooklyn Tornado Aftermath

Young Quercus kellogii, Black oak, bank of Merced River.

Its kind of like going on vacation in Bellevue but with palm trees

tree sprouting up through the pavement in baltimore.

A single tree stands out against the backdrop of the Welsh countryside. The original shot was in colour, but converted and cropped in CS3, before resizing.

An Appalachian Mountain view that reminds me of Robert Frost's verse from his poem Mending Wall:

"There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

If I could put a notion in his head:

"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it

Where there are cows? But here there are no cows."

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,

And to whom I was like to give offence.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall"

Don't you agree we are building far too many walls (political, social, cultural, gender, religious, etc., etc., etc.) between us, and giving far too much offence?

Jan & Steve sail thru Panama Canal 5,000 mi to Tahiti Feb-May '13 aboard 56' Quester

Raining again.

One more posting from the Garden of Ashburton Domain before we move on to Lake Tekapo.

This tree was planted on 1 September 1910 by the then Mayor Mr. Henry Davis in memory of Florence Nightingale.

Ashburton Domain and Gardens, Ashburton, South Island, New Zealand (Monday 2 May 2011 @ 11:25am).

View On Black

Fort Toulouse - Wetumpka, AL

I like the enchantment of this photograph, and the uncertainty that comes when wondering where the trees end and the water starts.

angra dos reis - rio de janeiro

Brasil