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While enjoying some time walking around the Balanced Rock, I noticed one photographer seemingly hiding behind this tree while facing the iconic rock formation. I walked over to see what he was capturing with his SLR camera. It was then that he pointed out this location, and I truly appreciated the view and artistic setting with an old tree. In my mind, I saw this as a black & white and decided to try out a technique I'd read about and try to practice from time to time: using LiveView and setting my Nikon SLR camera to capture the image in monochrome. I found it so much easier to focus on the tonal contrasts and shapes to compose this image. I later used some control points in Capture NX2 to bring out the brightness and contrast I wanted across the nearby foreground with trees and large bushes with that of the Balanced Rock.
Towering over 65 feet high, the Angel Oak has shaded John's Island, South Carolina, for over 1400 years, and would have sprouted 1000 years before Columbus' arrival in the New World. Recorded history traces the ownership of the live oak and surrounding land, back to the year 1717 when Abraham Waight received it as part of a small land grant. The tree stayed in the Waight family for four generations, and was part of a Marriage Settlement to Justus Angel and Martha Waight Tucker Angel. In modern times, the Angel Oak has become the focal point of a public park. Today the live oak has a diameter of spread reaching 160 feet, a circumference of nearly 25 feet, and covers 17,100 square feet of ground. www.historictrees.org
I could spend the rest of my life just photographing that tree, it was love at first sight. I decided to leave the people and signs in the photo, I thought they gave it scale.
Check out the video of this photoshoot at youtu.be/9vR4W1cGxKo
The beautiful Ficus of the Mazones in Almoradi Spain. This lovely tree is more than a century old and displays beautiful twists and shapes when you get right underneath the dome shaped canopy. I wanted to show the size of this beauty (18 metres tall and 30 metres across) so shot it with a fisheye lens and stood in the frame to try to give a sense of scale
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went over to wonderland to try and make some filming of the stone sculptures that there were so many of two weeks ago- they all mostly washed out by the surf or kicked over by park rangers now. so instead of just moping away and grabbing a quick nap before work, i figured id shoot some snails and moss.
17-40 f/4.0
50mm f/1.8
100mm f/2.8 macro
5d mkii
music: Chris Whitley "from a photograph"
have a nice day.
Here is a weathered tree I captured at Schoodic Peninsula in Acadia National Park on the coast of Maine USA. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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The leafless branches against the sky
A lonely tree with beautiful branches and shade
Leafless tree in winter (black and white nature)
City College Southampton
An old tree shows lots of healthy green branches, although it is obviously somewhat smaller than in years' past
Not getting out much with the camera due to the crap weather at the moment and a general lack of motivation, probably due to the D300 all boxed up ready to go away :-(( Sometimes you just have to go and do other stuff!
This amazing tree, was in one of the parks, we walked by...I couldn't resist snapping this awesome texture...I loooooooooooove texture and the bonus here was the new growth...
I love the symbol of new life from old!
This is a bit like me...the older I get...the more new life sprouts...I feel more alive today than ever before...I guess that comes from having given the last 37yrs to bringing up a family of four children lol...now they're all settled and happy...it's me time and I want to live my me time happily!
I hope you all get to live your 'me time' happily too!
With love
Nat :)