Tribute to Trees--Your favorite shots

[hunter20ga]

Trees are beautiful, solid, cool, lovely, sometimes lonely. They touch the human soul is ways that are primeval. Trees are fun to climb; provide shade on a hot summer's day, and reach heaveward with outstretched branches. Perhaps they resonate with so many of us because our ancestors were arboreal, and trees represent safety, food and a place to sleep. Or, if you're more literal in your Biblical translation, then trees were the foundation of the Garden of Eden and Jesus grew up in a carpenter's home.

Post your favorite tree shots!

Here are three to start the thread.

 

[Toothie]

Great shots there, here's some from me

 

[erding]

Very nice image - lovely viewpoint and composition.

 

[harrison1980]

a couple from me...

 

[fracster]

You need to ban sawman from this thread......

Here is one of mine, taken in thick fog last Christmas day morning.

And one from last Autumn.

 

[sawman]

Too late !

 

[hunter20ga]

Too late !

You're a cruel man, Sawman!

Another thing about trees...all that lovely wood for houses, furniture, paneling, and so on. Gotta love sawdust!

 

[sawman]

I have sawdust in my viens. I also have a love of trees & all things wood.That pic was just to wind up ole fracster!

 

[sawman]

Is this better?

 

[fracster]

Too late !

 

[richpips]

Here you go.

 

[hunter20ga]

Is this better?

That has to be one of the most remarkable, beautiful landscapes I've ever seen and a wonderful tribute to trees. WOW!

And fracster, I am quite enamored of your 'Misty Tree' shot, as well.

 

[sawman]

That has to be one of the most remarkable, beautiful landscapes I've ever seen and a wonderful tribute to trees. WOW!

And fracster, I am quite enamored of your 'Misty Tree' shot, as well.

Thank you. There is a wee story to go with that picture. We had bought a parcel of Sitka Spruce to clearfell near Dunkeld in Perthshire. When the harvester had finished its work this was found in what had been the middle of the wood.I believe they put a walk round it after that.

 

[tracybradbury]

Not one of my best photos but this is the woods near where I live, this was taken in the early Spring

 

[eyeofskye]

Quite like this one taken at Struan Pier on Skye

 

[fracster]

Old girl, supporting plenty of hangers on.......

 

[HIMUPNORTH]

A great thread idea that will run and run I am sure (if that never jinxed it)

I love trees in my aerials and have a few I love. This one for starts:

and this one from the same flight.

 

[hunter20ga]

Very, very nice, Gary. Particularly the first. You inspired me to add one more, though mine is very different in style.

This one is titled: Into the Sunlight

 

[GemRebel]

What a great idea for a thread! Here's a few of my fave's from Vancouver Island

In the rainforest at Deep Bay

The next two, Cathedral Grove

 

[Freester]

 

[hunter20ga]

Very nice, GemRebel!

 

[GemRebel]

Very nice, GemRebel!

Thank you!

 

[Mohain]

This is one of my all time favs. I do have many pics of trees though ...

 

[BenMottram]

Summer Tree



Spring Morning



Well I like them anyway!

 

[Dave-G]

and

 

[CarolF]

Count the trees!
1,2,3,4,5,6 .. err I win!

 

[joejowers]

Heres a shot of a palm tree i took in Barcelona on film...

 

[MisterE]

This is a strange one in Christchurch, New Zealand.

This is the tree as seen from a distance (obviously)

And this is it once you step through the outer foliage inside it - empty and hollow.

 

[MisterE]

Trees amongst the bubbling cauldrons of Yellowstone

 

[MisterE]

These are trees in Yosemite, striking because of their ability to grow out of nothing but rock.

 

[Oli R C]

Oh go on then. Have one from me...

 

[MisterE]

Only in America........

This is a cluster of giant Redwoods. Wedding ceremonies are performed at the base. It took a 12mm lens on a full frame sensor to fit in these 300 feet tall giants. Technically not the best shots possible due to all the shadow and sun head on.

 

[MisterE]

The base of a fallen redwood, several hundreds of years old

The base of a fallen Sequoia, a thousand years old or so. The markers attached, which are difficult to read at the low res for displaying here read, from the centre:

Crusades 1092
Magna Carta 1215
Columbus 1492
Pilgrims 1620
Independence 1776

 

[MisterE]

This one is a fallen Redwood whose branches have continued to grow vertically upwards.

This one is a scan of an old photo so it's not that good. It's a Sequoia, around 2000 years old, with a friend at the base to give an idea of size.

 

[MisterE]

This is somebody's work of art in Japan

 

[MisterE]

These are tree stumps recovered from a river bed in New Zealand after having been sculpted over years by the water flow, and erected as works of art.

 

[CT]

 

[scotty94]

Stunning...just stunning

 

[CT]

Thank you!

 

[fracster]

Trees are mysteriously special, cracking thread with some great shots, keep `em coming.