View allAll Photos Tagged treebranch
Red-tailed Hawk. This is the third day that I have been chasing him to get a good photo. Patience is rewarding.
They've unmasked the ogling owl;
it was truly a scared bird.
They've unmasked the roaring lion;
it was truly just a feline.
They've unmasked the howling wolf;
it was truly just a canine.
They've unmasked the deadly snake;
it was truly just an earthworm.
After my wife left for work, I took a short photo walk before I had to leave for work. It was 31 degrees Fahrenheit but with the sunshine it was actually pleasant outside. Pine trees on a February morning.
Leaf peeping on Hillsboro's SE Golden Street. It is an Acer palmatum, (commonly known as palmate maple, Japanese maple or smooth Japanese-maple) with Linearilobum-Leaf lobes.
Over 1,000 cultivars have been chosen for particular characteristics, which are propagated by asexual reproduction most often by grafting, but some cultivars can also be propagated by budding, cuttings, tissue culture, or layering. Some cultivars are not in cultivation in the Western world or have been lost over the generations, but many new cultivars are developed each decade.[8] Cultivars are chosen for phenotypical aspects such as leaf shape and size (shallowly to deeply lobed, some also palmately compound), leaf color (ranging from chartreuse through dark green or from red to dark purple, others variegated with various patterns of white and pink), bark texture and color, and growth pattern. (See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_palmatum) — in Hillsboro, Oregon.
In the area of the home where my wife and I live is a small wooded area. There are some unique looking trees and branches in this patch of woods.
After shaping each vase on the lathe, I'd put it on the drill press and make a hole in the neck. Then I'd drop a test tube into the hole, so that it was possible to fill the vase with water, without damaging the wood.
I made probably close to a hundred of these turned wooden bud vases between 1993 and 1994, while I was an intern at the St. Croix Life and Environmental Arts Project.
The vases were made from the branches of hardwood trees (mostly mahogany) which were too small to mill. I'd take a six-to-eight foot branch, bark and all, and slice it into eight inch long sections on a bandsaw. Then I'd carry the box of cut branches over to the lathe and spend the rest of the day turning out bud vases.
It was fun when I'd first hit the bark-covered wood with the chisel, it would make a lot of noise and sawdust and mildewed bark would fly everywhere.
It was very satisfying to produce these pieces, because the weathered tree branches contained all kinds of irregularities, including the boring holes left by various worms and insects.
All of the hardwood we used at St. Croix Leap, was either salvaged from dead trees (hurricane Hugo had left a lot of those lying around), or recovered legally and in an ecologically sound fashion, from our landscaping operations.
Created by Haley Tessier of Etsy shop Seequin.
Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2012/10/tree-branch-chandelier.html
It was a gorgeous Saturday. Since my wife had to work, I decided to visit Luther Britt Park and take a few photos.
A black-capped chickadee, standing on a lichen covered tree branch, with a sunflower seed in his beak on an autumn afternoon.
My wife drove the first part of our trip back home to NC. Since I was the passenger, I snapped these pictures of trees and mountains near Harpers Ferry. In this area, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia all kind of meet.
But we are through with these
We are shifting the heartache
We want strong summer love, the most robust of blood
Just to stay awake
Aside from listening to a lot of Smashing Pumpkins I have been listening to Interpol, mainly for the lyrics. I find their songs to be pretty dark and I really enjoy the mood. This song is not any different and inspired me for this shoot. I guess I want to leave this up for interpretation.
I am feeling a lot better about my project! I am starting to enjoy it so much again! I really liked today's even though I had to cut it short due to rain again. I am going to start experimenting more for sure though!
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. - William Butler Yeats
Music:From someone who started with the Yardbirds - Eric Clapton
I think that within every person there is an inner strength. However, that inner strength is different in everyone. I feel like I still have to work on my inner strength because there are so many things out there in the world that I am not sure I can face with confidence and power.
On another note, spring break is over!! Like wtf :( geez haha
Created for:
Photoshop Contest week 577 ~ Corvo
and
Angie's Animal Antics Challenge No 5 Wings
Thanks to:
Jaci XIII for the Cat
Andrew Crusoe for the tree branch
Paree for the starry night
and
www.flickr.com/photos/egydev/6931282160">Ahmed M. Araby and Amaya Rodrigo for the additional cats
April 30, 2023 - "As a child, Todd C. Smith climbed trees no more than the average kid. Mostly, he enjoyed drawing and painting. When it came time for college, he chose a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts where he majored in Fine Art. During the day he went to class and refined his drawing and painting skills. At night, however, Smith climbed the trees and buildings on and around campus. In his junior year, Todd decided to create artworks that presented the world-from-the-trees perspective that he had experienced on his nightly climbs.
In 2007, Smith was awarded the Work Exchange Fellowship position at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Floyds Knobs, Ind. In this 400-acre nature sanctuary, Smith began his Dailyclimb project, through which he has climbed a tree every day since April 5, 2007.
Cicadas, who must climb trees to exist, have directly influenced Smith’s Exuvia series, which include the three sculptures in Dublin’s Coffman Park. Cicadas molt their exoskeletons, leaving their shells in the trees, something that Smith, a LaGrange, Ky. artist, explores as a physical manifestation of his artistry.
Smith is wrapped in cellophane and packing tape to create a cast, which is covered in fiberglass cloth and resin to form his own exoskeleton, purposely creating shells (Exuvia) that play with reality.
The installations were brought to Dublin through Titration2: Park Fiction, the second phase of Dublin Arts Council’s on-loan outdoor sculpture exhibition series, which was installed in Dublin’s Coffman Park in 2008. The Park Fiction theme illustrates the whimsy and human connection to the outdoor recreational spaces in our midst. The exhibition was brought to life through four groupings, each ranging in size from three to more than 50 sculptural elements.
Titration is a common laboratory method used to add a measured quantity of a reagent, called a titrant, into an unknown reagent, called a reactant, to produce a chemical reaction. The exhibition series reflected the fluid properties of its name in the figurative sense: Dublin as a dynamic community, Dublin’s growing collection of public art and Dublin’s sense of cultural identity. The exhibition was co-curated by Dublin Arts Council Executive Director David S. Guion and public art curator Jesse Levesque Bishop of Louisville, Ky." Description from: www.dublinarts.org/featured-items/exuvia/?portfolioCats=94
I took a walk with my wife and our dog this evening. Brought along my Nikon W100 and snapped a few pictures.
Public Domain image from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Free download under CC Attribution (CC BY 4.0). Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/category/53/public-domain
The last winter assassination? The day before Spring, the last Xmas lawn ornament in North Toronto cruelly was put down. The blow-up was deflated late at night and her body was draped over a tree branch. Frozen in death? Actually Elsa was born with the powers to create and control ice and snow, so it was not a shocker to see her reinflated and holding court over Briar Hill St. Love that duct tape!
On March 4/5, 2008, we had quite an ice storm in my area.
My favorite local news station, 19 Action News, dubbed this "Ice Storm '08."
#DSC06482
One of our trees is in trouble and shedding branches. At least one, hopefully not this one, fell on a parked car! It's an ash tree and has a preservation order on it.
I made probably close to a hundred of these turned wooden bud vases between 1993 and 1994, while I was an intern at the St. Croix Life and Environmental Arts Project.
The vases were made from the branches of hardwood trees (mostly mahogany) which were too small to mill. I'd take a six-to-eight foot branch, bark and all, and slice it into eight inch long sections on a bandsaw. Then I'd carry the box of cut branches over to the lathe and spend the rest of the day turning out bud vases.
It was fun when I'd first hit the bark-covered wood with the chisel, it would make a lot of noise and sawdust and mildewed bark would fly everywhere.
It was very satisfying to produce these pieces, because the weathered tree branches contained all kinds of irregularities, including the boring holes left by various worms and insects.
All of the hardwood we used at St. Croix Leap, was either salvaged from dead trees (hurricane Hugo had left a lot of those lying around), or recovered legally and in an ecologically sound fashion, from our landscaping operations.