Trees & the Motif of "Sky"!

[Ruben Alfu]

Jake, very cool photos, I was inspired by those images and came up with this. I think it's a Lebanon Cedar, if someone knows for sure please confirm or correct me!

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Regards,

Ruben

 

[Asher Kelman]

Ruben,

I love it. Disciplined! Remarkable fine imaging. Nothing superfluous, except for minor tidiness (I'd consider editing away the tiny elements that cross the lower border).

Asher

 

[Ruben Alfu]

Thanks Asher! That's indeed what I felt this photo called for, something simple, essential.

Regards,

Ruben

 

[jake klein]

Jake, very cool photos, I was inspired by those images and came up with this. I think it's a Lebanon Cedar, if someone knows for sure please confirm or correct me!

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Regards,

Ruben

beautifull photo! I am happy to have been an inspiration!

 

[Michael Nagel]

There is a lot of inspiration here!

On of my favourite tree photos makes emphasis on the lung-like appearance of a tree without leaves:

Gefangener Mond​

Best regards,
Michael

 

[Asher Kelman]

There is a lot of inspiration here!

On of my favourite tree photos makes emphasis on the lung-like appearance of a tree without leaves:

Gefangener Mond​

Michael,

What's particularly remarkable to me is the effect of the moon shining between the leafless branches. I'm impressed that the simple act of your placement of the moon there, cleaves the tree into a pair of trees that complement each other.

I must admit to liking this picture a lot. I wonder how large you can print it. Also, have to tried a B&W version? That would be an interesting experiment.

Asher

 

[Michael Nagel]

Thanks Asher!

I must admit that the placement was intuitive - I felt that the place of the moon where you can see it was the best out of all positions possible at this moment.

The original resolution is approx. 4200x3000 pixel. I do not know what print size is possible with that resolution.

I did not try a b/w version - yet. I should...

Best regards,
Michael

 

[Zenon Char]

 

[Ben Rubinstein]

Somewhat lackluster effort for the title but closest thing I've got which doesn't look horribly cliched

Highland Mist, Scotland, 2007
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[Asher Kelman]

Somewhat lackluster effort for the title but closest thing I've got which doesn't look horribly cliched

Highland Mist, Scotland, 2007
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Ben,

I don't mind cliché, smiles, winks and the like. This picture has a chill to it like Hélene's pictures of grim dawn in france with empty streets and suppressed color.

Asher

 

[Tracy Lebenzon]

Stormy Monday​

 

[Asher Kelman]

I love silver birch trees. Is this what we are looking at? The angle is interesting.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Stormy Monday​

Tracy,

I'm so glad you kept hold of the detail in the dark water and the bright thin clouds and mist. Good job. How much processing did this need and is this film or digital?

Asher

 

[Tracy Lebenzon]

This was a digital capture, a 5 frame stitch IIRC, and it was mostly an average work up. I did a little bit of color enhancement on the reds.

Thank you, Asher, for all you do on the site!

 

[Andrew Stannard]

Hi,

One of my own....

THis is my favourite local tree, but alas.... The top was blown off in a storm a few weeks back, so the top of the trunk is now level with the leaves on the right-hand side. A shame really, and I think it has now lost some of its photographic balance, but no doubt I will still be back to photograph it again.


Regards,
Andrew.

 

[Asher Kelman]

A Sunset that arouses not just wonder, but also contemplation of loss too.

THis is my favourite local tree, but alas.... The top was blown off in a storm a few weeks back, so the top of the trunk is now level with the leaves on the right-hand side. A shame really, and I think it has now lost some of its photographic balance, but no doubt I will still be back to photograph it again.

That tree that has lost so much tells us about suffering. We feel tragedy, where potential is wasted or taken away from us.

This is, at last, a great sunset which earns a place above the gazillions of postcard-pretty pictures we see so often.

Thanks for sharing.

Asher

 

[Andrew Stannard]

That tree that has lost so much tells us about suffering. We feel tragedy, where potential is wasted or taken away from us.

And I suspect that despite the continuing ravages of time it will go on telling this story long past the end of my own lifetime. I will continue to document this tree's own story over the coming years - It will no doubt continue to suffer in the winter storms to come.



By way of reference I show below two more photos of the same tree. The snowy scene I am less fond of, but in the 2nd shot I find that the tree seems to command a sense of respect and watching over the surrounding scene. A more powerful presence.

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Regards, and thanks for looking,

Andrew.

 

[Asher Kelman]

And I suspect that despite the continuing ravages of time it will go on telling this story long past the end of my own lifetime. I will continue to document this tree's own story over the coming years - It will no doubt continue to suffer in the winter storms to come.



By way of reference I show below two more photos of the same tree. The snowy scene I am less fond of, but in the 2nd shot I find that the tree seems to command a sense of respect and watching over the surrounding scene. A more powerful presence.

You have the right ideas, for sure. At issue here are the lines that converge our gaze to somewhere to the right of the tree. Recomposing is all you need and the tree would dominate.

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This more focused picture is so easy to appreciate, of course but I like the studied bleakness of the snow-covered landscape.

Andrew,

Don't give up on the snow! I do like this as a series. Remember how Magritte explored and re-explored the pipe! Of course, Nicolas claris' helicopter would come in handy for this shot to command the surrounding blanket of snow.

Asher

 

[Maris Rusis]

Snow Gum Before Mount Duncan​

Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.4cm X 16.5cm, from an Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB 67 camera with a 50mm f4.5 lens and IR720 filter.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Snow Gum Before Mount Duncan​

Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.4cm X 16.5cm, from an Efke IR820 negative exposed in a Mamiya RB 67 camera with a 50mm f4.5 lens and IR720 filter.

Of course I'm impressed. But why no leaves? Is it dead? I thought that Eucalyptus pauciflora didn't shed its leaves but the branches bend to shed the snow instead!

Asher

 

[Mark Hampton]

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Initial.conditions.dependent - M Hampton


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dots on screen hitting your eyes. printed into your mind seemingly a whole made from its parts. where the tree starts and the atmosphere begins will always be mute.

I was going to call it scotch mist!

But is neither mist nor whisky.

 

[Maris Rusis]

Of course I'm impressed. But why no leaves? Is it dead? I thought that Eucalyptus pauciflora didn't shed its leaves but the branches bend to shed the snow instead!

Asher

Asher, you are right. E. pauciflora is an evergreen. Australia has no native deciduous plants at all except a rare Gondwanaland relic in the south of Tasmania. We get autumn but not Fall!

This Snow Gum was mostly killed by fire 6 years ago but one of its deep basal epicormic buds has sprouted down on the right hand size. Snow Gums like the American Bristlecone Pines are slow, bent, tenacious, and almost eternal.

 

[Tracy Lebenzon]

Hi,

One of my own....

Fabulous!

 

[Mark Hampton]

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Initial.dependent.conditions.- M Hampton


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dots on screen hitting your eyes. printed into your mind seemingly a whole made from its parts. where the tree starts and the atmosphere begins will always be mute 2.

 

[Mark Hampton]

Dependent.conditions.initial.- M Hampton


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dots on screen hitting your eyes. printed into your mind seemingly a whole made from its parts. where the tree starts and the atmosphere begins will always be mute 3.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Dependent.conditions.initial.- M Hampton


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dots on screen hitting your eyes. printed into your mind seemingly a whole made from its parts. where the tree starts and the atmosphere begins will always be mute 3.

Mark,

I do appreciate the focus you have in controlling the width of the path and direction of your current esthetic vision. You are not straying too much and so you can learn from your growing body of work. I'm impressed that your work has your fingerprints.

Asher

 

[Mark Hampton]

Mark,

I do appreciate the focus you have in controlling the width of the path and direction of your current esthetic vision. You are not straying too much and so you can learn from your growing body of work. I'm impressed that your work has your fingerprints.

Asher

Asher,

there is as you identify a method of working - in these works I am trying to express a constriction - from above that I feel is present in our time... the images are quiet and I guess get drowned out by the noise..

sometimes I feel as if they barely exist enough for other to see.

thanks for the time and comments.

 

[Michael Nagel]

We had that pleasant view while riding the train back after a short walk close to Tegernsee.

Tree - Yellow Sky​

Best regards
Michael

 

[John Wolf]

So many fascinating sights in Vegas.

John

 

[Mark Hampton]

So many fascinating sights in Vegas.

John

John,

I enjoy the fractal qualities in this - there is for me in most of your work (i have seen) a poise.

is there a slight lightning around the trees - or is my eye monitor interface burst again?

Extract LL2 (WIHNMBP)- M Hampton​

i think the eye monitor interface is burst again

cheers