“There are gigantic trees that have grown tall into the winds and the clouds over the thousands of years of their lives, their tops are rustled and tossed by the mists of the atmosphere!

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This beautiful tree looks like its had a few battles in its life

Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden

Tokyo, Japan

Comme un air de forêt enchantée...

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Early morning light on a Utah Juniper trunk on the south rim if the Grand Canyon.

Just as a sidebar comment: I grew up in Minnesota and know about cold, but 30 degrees and windy is Arizona feels really cold!

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While walking the grounds of Victoria's Hatley Castle I spied this beautiful Japanese maple with the sun backlighting it nicely.

Love the varied twisted, contorted branches and the mixed autumn colors the backlighting highlights so well.

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At Watergrove Reservoir.

Rochdale Gtr. Manchester, UK

Montezuma Cypress' roots

This tree caught my eye - It's elongated branches seemed to be magically suspended in the air...

Grasmere - Cumbria, UK

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Magnolias Smorgasbord - Santa Gemita - 061321-19

From my walk in the woods a few days ago.

"This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff."

- Carl Sagan

Gnarly old oak tree along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

So today I snuck out with my camera for my 1hr of permitted exercise, I've been stopped by the Police before for not adhering to lockdown rules, only essential exercise etc. so I took a scenic route along an old bridle path and came across this really old, gnarly oak. I love the shapes the branches make against the sky. I couldn't get the whole tree in the shot as the path is heavily tree lined and very narrow but I think the image shows the rugged beauty of this ancient tree. Bit of flare on the image but hey-ho.

Somewhere in the boonies.

From my Wild and Weathered Wood collection.

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Seems an appropriate time to post this.

A wall next to the apartment our son had been renting in Tucson while getting his masters degree.

For Wednesday Walls.

Evidence of a long, hard life, but still it carries on. A scribbly gum (?) in amongst the stone pagodas at Ganguddy (Dunns Swamp).

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Coffin Bay South Australia

I don't really know much about trees or what species this one might be, but it does have character, I think, and with a touch of added texture, so does the bokeh.

HHBW (Happy Helios Bokeh Wednesday)

This part submerged gnarly tree struck me as somewhat serpent like, the way it arches up and down.

The presence of some light mist provided a bit of extra atmosphere for the image, which one might be forgiven for thinking iwas taken in some exotic jungle forest, when it is actually a wood just outside Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire, UK. And anyone who knows anything of the UK will know that Scunthorpe is anything but exotic 😉

Olympus Em1 Mk2 (Hi Res Mode)

Olympus 12-100

Polariser filter

Lake Bonney Riverland

From my Wild and Weathered Wood collection.

Curious old tree root details

I love woodland photography, but it’s not that easy living in Australia. As much as I love the Aussie bush, it’s really difficult to photograph. The colours are dull and often bland. The leaves are small and the branches are erratic shaped twigs. Most of the time, it looks 10 times better in real life than in a photo. I was lucky enough to find this dead tree in the bush last week.

Dunnfield Creek, Delaware Water Gap NJ/PA

A mid-day shot from our recent trip to Sedona, Arizona. That's Cathedral Rock, one of the area's most photographed formations, straight ahead in the distance.

48:52 Water motion

A brilliant river surfer I shot in Thun, Switzerland where there is a larger standing wave used by the surfers as the water passes under the old wooden bridge there. Lots of surfing without actually going anywhere-great fun!!

Shredding the gnar, meaning to ride with exceptional speed, ability, or enthusiasm. This surfer is Julian, and he did just that.

Apologies for my absence, been pushed for time recently.

Back in the day, it was cool or rad, fab or groovy, way decent or far out, awesome dude or neat. I just love the word gnarly which fits into the above somewhere sometime :o))

A promising morning beckoned with some mist, and so off down to the woods I went, but the mist wasn’t as dense there as it was at home, but still sufficient to enable the sky and the background to blend into each other.

Olympus em1 mk2 (Hi Res Mode)

Olympus 12-100

Couldn't resist a shot of this gnarly old oak tree in Sunol, California.