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Taken in Columbus Belmont State Park, TN. Really like how the limbs on the tree look against the night sky.
It was a more or less starry night when I decided to take my camera to go out at midnight. When I arrived at the top of the small hill the full moon and the upcoming clouds created an interesting atmosphere which I tried to capture in this picture.
after what turned out to be a failed sunset on the slopes of yewbarrow in the lake district, i walked back down somewhat deflated. not wanting to come away empty handed i jumped in the beck beneat and stumbled across this tree with some funghi growing. the detail in the tree is what caught my eye and thought it would look great with the right shutter speed to catch the flow of the passing water.
This tree has a beautiful crown. Has been longing to shoot it and found this corner in Endau, with a building just behind it to contrast against the tree crown.
Coming to the end of our Easter trip, we stopped for a walk on the Ridgeway (an area of elevated downland in Wiltshire)
This has a last of winter feel. At least it did at the time ....
Texture courtesy of Anna-Lenabem
The tree stands beside a circular trail which circumscribes the site of an Iron Age hill fort. Around this trail are several ancient beech trees such as this one. On the outer side of the trail are steep wooded slopes. On the inside can still be seen remnants of the 2000 year old stone fortifications. And within the oval shaped platform of the fort itself lie several Celtic burial mounds, now overgrown of course. Incidentally according to the medieval historian, Geoffrey of Monmouth the location was also the site of a 5th century wooden fortress named Caer Guorthegirn , where the fugitive usurper King Vortigern took refuge whilst fleeing from the brothers Uther Pendragon and Ambrosius Aurelianus. Some years prior to this Vortigern had murdered the boys' father King Constans while the two of them were safely in France. Upon coming of age the two young men returned to England to hunt Vortigern down and avenge their father. It was at Caer Guorthegirn that they finally caught up with him and burnt him alive inside his own fortress. Ambrosius then took the crown of England till his death in battle, upon which it passed to Uther, who according to legend was the father of King Arthur.
This beautiful tree is a Japanese Maple, and is in the Japanese Garden in Washington Park, Portland. We are just getting some really beautiful fall color now.
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