Even fallen trees tell a story -- if we listen!

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I imaged this dead tree with the Milky Way a week ago and was able to revisit and shoot from the other side for a star trail. The trails were made up of 212 20 second exposures over the course of just over an hour. Trail image was created using the free StarStaX software.

This shot is at 102mm and is an in camera 9 focus stacked shots, at sunrise, later compiled with Helicon Focus.

Each shot was underexposed by about 1 stop

Taken at Murray river National Park, Lyrup section.

Here is some information, from SA State Libtrary, on how Lyrup township may have got its name.

www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1350

Burned in the past...

Petrified in the times

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03/31/2013

A "fossil" from my archives, lovingly adapted to look like a very old photo…for Sliders Sunday. 😊

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

HSS!

Australia, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory

I'm not sure this fits the category, but I'm pleased when I have an idea in my head and I finally get it to work. It took parts of five images to get here, but I think I like it. Tomorrow, I may hate it....maybe it's the antihistamines messing with my head.

Beautiful early morning reflections

Murray River National Park, Lyrup section, South Australia

A dead Eucalypt of uncertain species, near Blackwood Creek in Northern Tasmania.

Leica Q2 Monochrom, Summilux 28mm f/1.7 lens, 1/30th sec at f/11, ISO 200. Tiffen No. 29 red filter.

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The roots of a big tree stump that was in the middle of the Trent Canal. This stump was used for sometime by the local Northern Map Turtles,but a storm moved it down the canal along the shoreline ,it was hauled out by crane and brought back for the turtles in the area, but again it loved down stream after another storm. Finally, the Park;s Canada lady had it put in this spot near the Swing Bridge. She calls it her trophy.

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dead trees on a hill

I was looking at the daffodils starting to bloom. This cardinal was just sitting there. He may still be there for all I know. :-)

I was driving back after a work travel on an old trunk road when I noticed a small walkway exit leading to a small river. The photographer in me excitedly whispered on my ears, “emm, I must explore this place!!” while the composed me said “the path is too small & I don’t think my car can pass this. Don’t know what else is ‘waiting’ for me there!!”.

Well you guessed it right, the photographer in me won & I decided to drive in despite the terrible condition of the walkway.

It was around 12 pm & it was blaring hot.. No one was around (obviously, don’t think there are many mad ppl like me around!! ) & I could have heard a pin’s drop there!! It was so quiet & calm!! I loved the place immediately…beautiful unpolluted small river running freely… beautiful wild plants waving & playing with the wind joyfully!!!

Then, I turned to my right & stopped ‘dead’! I saw an eerily strange tree.. a pair actually, but looks like one!! It’s a dead one but look uniquely alive…immediately I had goosebumps….( It was scary!!!! No one was around!!! Hello??) 

Not even one dry leaf were left & what actually took me by awe is the branches (I think so it’s the branches!! Cant be anything else..) They were terribly entwined & messed up you can’t make the head or tail out of it!!

As I was standing there flabbergasted & intently studying the branches, my gaze fell on another tree opposite it…this one was much alive & healthy & in fact, beautiful!! Then my eyes caught something beneath the tree & my heart ‘stopped’ for a split second!! My mind registered that ‘something’ as a small figure standing beneath the tree… a child dressed in a long white greyish dress!!!! Goosebumps were gone & I went blank….I turned to the other side & stood there in panic not knowing what to think or do! I forced a turn on my head to give it a second look..I had too right?

& phewww!!! its now looking more like stone or a big stick or even a tombstone. My eyes & wild imagination just played its trick on me & ‘jacked’ me!! Argghhh…

Cooling down again.. I said to myself, ‘This make better sense’!!!

I then quickly clicked as much as possible of the ‘messed up unique’ tree & the place before hurriedly walking back to my car…

You guessed it right again, I did not go near the other spooky tree to have a closer look at the ‘whatever thing’ that scarred the hell out of me a moment ago…

Perhaps a larger view of the picture will let me know…I still haven’t.. Any helpers? Hehe!!

P/s: Pardon me for the long story, just wanted to share this silly ‘supernatural’ encounter of mine with you folks!!

& yeah, just make sure that nothing pops out from this picture in your pc, while you are intently looking at these ‘messed up’ trees trying to figure out which branch is which tree’s!! hehehe…

Robber Fly perched on an old rotten log, Idaho.

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."

Henry David Thoreau

You can't really tell from the perspective of this image, but this tall dead tree is a landmark on the cliff above Northrup Canyon. We hiked up the Wagon Road trail on the south wall of the canyon and headed west to this tree. It stands directly above the parking lot where we left our vehicle.

We decided that rather than backtracking the way we came, we would find our own way down via the steep embankment to the left. It took awhile, but we made it down unscathed.

That's Banks Lake and Steamboat Rock in the distance.

Certainly seen better days but as it is a picture in it's own right . Would have been better with a lower viewpoint but then I would have been looking through a hedge . Talking of hedges , his was taken just a short distance from where the hedgers were at work in a previous shot .

Vertical Pano LB Velvet 85 dead tree blue sky 3821 Luminar

Murray River National Park, Lyrup section. A few focus stacked images at 70mm.

Then given a light treatment with Topaz Simplify

remnants of a forest eroding away in the ocean.

I've been going to Porlock for the past 17 years now and I hadn't seen this area before, with a dead woodland on it's fringe. A few more shots from here to come.

Nikon D850

16-35mm

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Burned trees from a past wildfire form a line along the edge of a cliff overlooking Utah Lake in the distance far below.

Note: To view the this image in chronological order with the rest of the photos from my recent 4,500 mile (7,242 KM), 4-month overlanding trip from Florida to Washington and back, visit www.flickr.com/photos/stevefrazier/albums/72177720302601994

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Bundoora Park, Bundoora, Victoria (ABCTV Weather)

Found in the Ozarks

By the time Osprey and Anhingas got to this last round, it was pretty much all over but the shouting. At sunrise on Armand Bayou.

False-color infrared

Lake Moogerah South East Queensland.

Flooded trees rising through the morning mist recalls the image of lost battalions.

...a few weeks ago at the skeleton tree. Poppleton,North Yorkshire,