Show us your lonely trees

[dazzajl]

Following on from djaphoto's great tree shot thread, here's a request to see some of your tucked away classics.

I'll start with one from Spain, not a classic but I quite like it anyway.

http://homepage.mac.com/lightfall.uk/tapas/pictures/picture-1.jpg

[minimeeze]

Ok, not exactly a lonely tree, but one of my favourite tree shots taken during the Dorset meet in Nov 06.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/833/tree1.jpg

[Marcel]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1040/528166407_ff264eb354_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbooth/528166407/)

Thats my favourite lonely tree :)

[Messiah Khan]

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/115/2/a/Field_of_Clouds_3_by_MessiahKhan.jpg
:)

[Chillimonster]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1039/876237143_210fc8484a.jpg

Taken with my first digi-cam (Canon S1-IS). A bit oversharpened, but i kinda like the effect.

[Chillimonster]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1063/878189203_ea297bb03e.jpg

And another from my most recent camera (Oly E-510)

[Gandhi]

Oh, alright then......

One from this morning.....


http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1164/DSC_00711.jpg





Good idea for a thread this.

Anymore for anymore?

Must say, I like the two above ones, the mono especially.

[InaGlo]

Im still searching for my perfect lonely tree ... but I did like this Silhouette shot from last year.


http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f93/Glorsclaws/Picture-269858-photobucket.jpg

[Susane]

These are great! I'd be hard-pressed to pick a winner if they were in a comp.:thumbs:

I don't have any pics of lonely trees. :(

[Hacker]

Same tree, dusk and dawn:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f273/HackerUK/Sunset-moon057.jpg


http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f273/HackerUK/Element2.jpg

[trebs]

couple from me

http://www.stillmation.com/BD/himmig/DSC_5676f_sm.jpg

http://www.stillmation.com/BD/himmig/DSC_5661a_sm.jpg

Rob.

[Brains]

All superb. Some great colours in these. Interesting the way most have gone for silhouettes.

[ranarama]

I've got a couple for this...

http://www.neilsampson.com/photography/dorset2/slides/005.jpg



http://www.neilsampson.com/photography/spain/drive/slides/157.jpg

[James Greed]

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/greedyjames/OutbackTree.jpg

AND


http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/greedyjames/TreeSunset.jpg

AND

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c45/greedyjames/TreeatOlgas.jpg

[Forbiddenbiker]

Superb shots guys, the misty ones are all fantastic. :clap:

Lovin the same tree in both Hackers shots, just goes to prove, even with a simple subject .. lighting is everything.

[minimeeze]

Am loving these shots - keep them coming. Am in my own little 'tree heaven' :lol: :D

[Yv]

:thinking: **wonders where to find some lonely trees in Nth London** :lol:

Some excellent shots there guys, I dont there's one I dont like. :clap:

[dazzajl]

This is just great, loving these trees. :D:D:D

Here's another little one from an old film scan. He's not quite a lonely tree, as there is another in the frame. But he can't see it round the wall of the canyon so alone he stands. ;)

http://homepage.mac.com/lightfall.uk/tree/pictures/picture-1.jpg

[mrgubby]

At last a lonely Tree thread , my wife thinks I'm mad when I take shots of them :)

1st I could find in my album

(looks a lot better uncompressed :()

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/brian.pitblado/example/tree.jpg

[Druid]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Druid/Foggy%20Xmas/DSC_0080_3.jpg

[PaulBoy]

Some fabulous shots above but just to prove I am "back" (ie have a camera again :embarrassed:) here's a lonely tree (although I took the shot to show off the spectacular heather!)
Paul ;)

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/heather_and_tree_800.jpg

[Yv]

RIGHT!! I have NO lonely trees....well not at 5.30pm today anyway....by 9pm that might have changed...fingers crossed please guys, I nipped up to Potters Bar an hour ago and spied something on my way that I had never even noticed before....so, sunset is approx 8pm, so yours truly will be off out for a while at 7.15 ish! :D

[InaGlo]

OOh some really smashing, and really different tree shots here.
Been inspired to go have another look this aftie ... Ill see if I got anything worthwhile in a bit.

Good luck LL ... look forward to seeing your captures!:thumbs:

[Dark Star]

There are some cracking tree shots in this thread

This one was posted before but worth a second look maybe...

http://www.darkstarimages.co.uk/general/sunset-tree.jpg

Not Africa...Highams Park!

[h.r.ford]

There are some smashing pics in here. Well I'll add mine:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/418576325_a6ce153579_o.jpg

[stevegreen]

http://static.flickr.com/205/465148191_eee0e64dcb.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve_green/465148191/)

excuse the dust bunny :(

[CT]

Well there's three of them but they look a bit lonely?

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Misty1.jpg

[Yv]

well I managed to grab a couple last night, but haven't had time to even download them yet, soon as I got back, ADT on phone, alarm going off, then later dinner when we finally got home, and been mad busy all day :shake:


However, I have to say, I very much like your lonely group group CT, very atmospheric. :thumbs:

[nigelcampbell]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/297296025_55eac91663_o.jpg
Along the Wire

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/297292870_30fb47e371_o.jpg
Starling Tree

[Raymond Lin]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/1694/snowyh0.jpg

[strax]

some great shots here.

This is my wet, lonely tree...

http://www.pbase.com/straxx/image/84632466/original.jpg

[chewyuk]

Some absolute crackers on here....Here's a couple from me:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1197/757900496_baf013c947.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1027/1258728049_4c2cefbd11.jpg

[Yv]

OK, taken especially for this thread [I was feeling left out], my lonely tree....the only one I could get near. It started off as a landscape format shot in RAW, but even then, I couldnt quite pull back the blown area of sky where the setting sun was, and the lower exposures lost too much detail in the land, so I decided to go for a crop. Handheld, my one and only lonely tree! :lol:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1002/tree5.jpg

Not nearly as good as so many on this thread, and its a bit noisy, but its a start ;)

[dod]

one of mine from last year :)

http://www.hardmuircroft.plus.com/flowers/snowtree.jpg

[Mohain]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1253/916884331_65e7a44894_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1116/915688229_887f43a604_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1139/829641950_de6b9f3d04_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1358/829641930_3c9d5d2bf9_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1384/894220935_199e80d4d9_o.jpg

Don't know if this last one counts, not really that lonely but all the other trees don't like him and call him names ;)

[Ratty]

Even I'd struggle to be lonely in those crowds!

[Ratty]

Bit of a crap picture really but at least it fits the criteria for the thread

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/lt1.jpg

[Ratty]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/lth.jpg

[davidbridges]

Mohain how do your shots looks so dramatic !! love em, and keep em coming everyone else. Dav

[dazzajl]

Mohain how do your shots looks so dramatic

might be because there are lots and lots of trees. ;);)

[Yv]

This 'lonely' lil sappling just wants to join his mates on the other bank :whistling: ;)

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1251/lonely-tree.jpg

[Ross]

Here's one from Wales last February

http://www.itsnotarace.com/tpf/Lonelytree.jpg

[elektro13]

Mohain and Dod i completely love your pictures of lonely trees! That first black and white tree is very sinister! xx

[DaveFeeder]

Here's my stab at a mobile phone advert!

http://www.adverse-camber.co.uk/images/20070529223425_the%20mobile%20phone%20tree.jpg (http://www.adverse-camber.co.uk/index.php?showimage=21)

[Tim Sainsbury]

This is from earlier this year, taken at about 2 in the afternoon. (Compressed for the internet).

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p143/mrsarkey/Pic_06.jpg

[Sadlybrokeboy]

How about this one? That's Ben Nevis in the background. :)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/matt173/BenNevisSmall.jpg (http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f307/matt173/BenNevis.jpg)

It's a clickie to the full size version :)

Matt

[Pooks]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/1227/lonelytree1.jpg

[HIMUPNORTH]

Great stuff here. I have a truly lonely tree shot somewhere but can't find it. In the meantime I give you a strange tree......
http://www.garywilliamson.co.uk/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/422471301_6df348bf2c_o.jpg

[awp]

Some great shots here. Here's one of mine.
http://andrewwilsonphotography.co.uk/samples/pics/dif/wheat_and_tree.jpg

The above photograph is © Andrew Wilson Photography and must not be used without permission.

[HIMUPNORTH]

Here was one I was thinking off........

http://www.garywilliamson.co.uk/coppermine/albums/Landscapes/IMG_1150_Tree_Drumochter.jpg


I am sure there is another somewhere. :thinking:

[theMusicMan]

Some lovely shots in here, but as I was looking through some of my older images taken in my pre DSLR days, I stumbled across this image taken in Entabeni Nature Reserve in South Africa. I know it's not a patch on any others posted here, I was stunned at the colours!!

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/themouthpiecedotcom/entabeni-1.jpg

[OptiBull]

Same stunning shots there guys! Mohain your set stands out perticaly, loving your work.

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d20/properjob/m_stumped.jpg

[dakid]

Maybe not properly lonely, but looks a little cold at least :)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2202/1522523624_2ef429be86_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/martindoyle/1522523624)

[sawman]

My attempt. Dead Scots Pine
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/tree6.jpg

[DiddyDave]

I thought I'd have seen this one by now - it's on the main road into Keswick and I've been meaning to photograph it for years - had a quick mess and put this border on, but I don't like it much now - cheers

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/500/Dead-Tree---1.jpg

[richmond]

I didn't want to be left out :lol: My contribution


http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/daidoh/Flora/Lonelytree.jpg

[dazzajl]

Lots of really really nice tree shots in here and I've enjoyed seeing every single one of them.

For the record though, a lonley tree shot is one tree in the frame and one tree only. Not so much as another twig allowed. :D

[Puz]

Might as well add one in here, not the best but at least it's a tree.. ;)

http://www.philson.net/images/20070629182426_tree2-s.jpg

[Ratty]

I'll take your word for it.

[DiddyDave]

Quote For the record though, a lonley tree shot is one tree in the frame and one tree only. Not so much as another twig allowed.

Am I in breach of this 'rule' then (post 55) as you can see other trees in the background? I'd have thought lonely meant others were avoiding you too, which mine clearly are as they haven't rushed to give comfort & support to my tree which stands alone

On second thoughts... saying a tree is 'lonely' is personification, how are we to know that a tree stood alone is in fact lonely, rather than in fact having a great time all by itself? But then that's personification too! I guess we just have to assume it has no thoughts on the matter? :thinking::thinking::thinking:

Perhaps this should be another thread all by itself? But would that thread then be lonely too! :shake::shake::shake:

[richmond]

:cuckoo: and :nuts: both of you. :lol:

[Pooks]

Perhaps the topic should be:-

Show us your lone tree

Rather than:-

Show us your lonely trees

You could have a group of lonely trees! ;)

[Marcel]

Perhaps the topic should be:-

Show us your lone tree

Rather than:-

Show us your lonely trees

You could have a group of lonely trees! ;)

Yes you could. People who are surrounded by the most people are often the loneliest :D

I would have thought the same applies to trees.

Besides, the question is not one of whether its lonely, surely it's that if it truly IS lonely, then do the others hear it cry?

[casfan]

Here's my contribution again from malham cove, this tree is growing high up in the cliff all on its lonesome, sure someone with better skills than me could do it more justice, but it fits the bill
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/4216/treewm9.jpg

[KenCo]

A couple of mine, hope you don't mind and that i'm not too late!

http://www.takingthepic.co.uk/Forum%20Pics/Trees/Generated%20HDR%20-%20Tone%20mapped.jpg

http://www.takingthepic.co.uk/Forum%20Pics/Trees/Sycamore%20gap%20bw%202.jpg

http://www.takingthepic.co.uk/Forum%20Pics/Trees/Sycamore%20gap%20finished%20bw%20copy.jpg

http://www.takingthepic.co.uk/Forum%20Pics/Trees/Sycamore%20gap%20new%202.jpg

Ken.

[Ratty]

Let's get pedantic on the interpretation of 'lonely'.
Which I actually covered a long time back in this thread.

The OP has stated the meaning so shirley that's what counts.

anyway a tree is a much more substantial being than a pathetic huiman so is highly unlikely to suffer the hang-ups that people have, hence avoiding all the causes of loneliness apart from the one that is being alone !

[Ratty]

lonely (lōn′lē)

adjective

alone; solitary

standing apart from others of its kind; isolated
unfrequented or uninhabited
unhappy at being alone; longing for friends, company, etc.
causing such a feeling

[spencer]

I knew I had one somewhere!
Anyway some great shot there.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s48/spencer_100/_MG_3819_7_82.jpg?t=1194615324

TFL
Spence

[AndyBorzi]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1179/889086500_51f8f12392.jpg

One stormy afternoon in Ireland last year