post your trees!

[JPJackson]

5x7 Deardorff 120mm lens Y6 filter, FP4+ Xtol +1. "New" cyanotype; Arches platine, 1% sulfuric acid....
Taken on the road above our place; we live down in the holler.

[Joe O'Hara]

Tree with hawk.

[koraks]

Joe, that's fabulous!

JPJackson, I really like that cyanotype, it came out very well!

[Maris Rusis]

Casuarina Trees, Lake Weyba

Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 24.6cm X 19.5cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD triple extension field view camera
fitted with a Fujinon-W 300mm f5.6 lens.

[stawastawa]

Maris, lovely subject.
Tones are rich and inviting, surface of the water is superb, dancing trunks play well.
but something about the composition doesn't land right... maybe back up a few steps? maybe landscape format? maybe the intruding branches are right at a balance point that needs to either be more chaotic or less chaotic.

But I love the depth and the way I go out onto that water!

[Maris Rusis]

Thanks stawastawa. Lots of compromises in this one:
Framing five trees out of a generously chaotic lake side is not so easy. Stuff sneaks into the edges and I did not have an axe or bowsaw to trim the intruders; as if I would.
The sky is nearly blank and the usual trick of filling it with foliage works ... sort of.
Water texture is a bit soft because I had to keep the focus plane through the trees and not tilted out to the horizon.
One of the trees has fallen recently, another is about to go ... no re-shoot.

[Leszek Vogt]

Falling Oaks
Format 7x17 in
Aqueous Pigmented ink

This is bit understated, but I like the orgy, Tri.

Les

[stawastawa]

Maris, yes the water is soft, but i really like that slight movement leading (for me) to the right, which Is why I wonder about landscape orientation. But, tre bon, may more people find it as compelling or more than I do. I'm certainly glad to have witnessed it.

[DennisD]

Falling Oaks
Format 7x17 in
Aqueous Pigmented ink

This is bit understated, but I like the orgy, Tri.

Les

Yes, very understated, but beautifully done

I always enjoy shots like this - a tangle of branches that when framed properly makes wonderful order out of chaos.
Personally, I find such scenes difficult to visualize... And difficult to bring to a sense of order on the ground glass - even after many years.

[Tri Tran]

Thanks folks for your feedback