This is the first time I've ever took a photo with the shutter open for 60secs, I was totally amazed at the time because I couldn't see a thing!

Also when I looked at it on the PC I thought there was some camera shake as the stars were blurred until it hit me that it wasn't shake it was actually how far they, or more likely the earth, had moved in 60secs! I knew about this type of photography and how it was achieved, but I just didn't know I had done it, albeit it on a smaller scale!

Firery sky

There are so many classic images of the Serengeti. The lone tree on the plain, to me, symbolizes this vast open endless plain that is the Serengeti

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Promenade en bateau dans les calanques entre Cassis et Marseille.

WOW, I just realized that the Ocala event hasn't been fully wrapped up yet! I guess there is always next week. In my defense, this was created up there during our setup. Hope you like.....

I just love these solo tree scenes. Something very simple, stable, and calming in a world of chaos, instability, and confusion. Ok, that was a bit too deep I guess.

6:30 AM load in, so, I'm outta here!

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Shot with Huawei Mate 20 Pro.

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Looking up between a couple of hills on a grey and windy day in the Peak District in September.

solo tree

Fititng for the mood of the day, a weeping willow adorns one part of Waterlow Park.

A huge tree — no idea what it is, sorry — with a spacious room in its trunk.

I got this shot along the beautiful Highway 250 on the Big Island.

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Solo tree.. beautiful day before the storm came.

An intricate pattern of branches from this tree (or are these four different trees?) just outside Lauderdale House, inside Waterlow Park.

Blomidon wander

naked

As mentioned before, our bus from Anchorage to Denali made a stop at the McKinley Princess Lodge. Thanks to Mom's weird gift with weather and mountain views, we had some spectacular views of Denali and the Alaska range from their deck. This is one, with a few more to follow right on its heels.

Here I was playing with a trial version of LightZone. I wanted to do a "zone" sort of thing, and was having trouble getting the effect I wanted with Photoshop (which is my default tool). There are things about LightZone that I quite like (and it worked well here), but there are other things about it that are pretty frustrating. I don't know how in the heck, for example, you'd select just that solo tree if you needed to.

Ah, well, the world is never completely simple, is it?

Solo Trees

Surviving change

Tree of Richter Street during its eighth growing season.

In spring of 2007, Silva Cells were installed along Richter Street between Bernard and Laurence Street to support 8 new street trees.

thorndale, texas.

It doesn't look like much, but the road to the Observatory is a pretty tough climb.

Machu Picchu '07