Do your trees FRIGHTEN anyone?

[monkeymon]

religious discussions

Is there such a thing? I thought the main idea was to smack people with the all mighty bible, like some egomaniac that just can't be wrong and knows everything.

[Bill_1856]

Is there such a thing? I thought the main idea was to smack people with the all mighty bible, like some egomaniac that just can't be wrong and knows everything.

SHE'll get you for that!

[Heroique]

Tree zapped (smacked?) by father Zeus for its hubristic notion of life eternal.

Probably once a Whitebark Pine, if its living neighbors were any clue.

I had fun inspecting the stricken remains – even piecing together a deeply-chiseled channel of charred wood. Perhaps the clues fooled me – maybe the tree died in advance of the lightning bolt, and its bleached remains took the hit.

Yet again, it may have been a healthy tree hit by lightning, only to continue a happy life until succumbing to old age. The living trees atop this knoll had sustained direct hits too, and were showing them with pride. Like heroic battle scars.

(Beaverhead-Deerlodge Nat'l Forest, Southwest Montana)

Tachi 4x5
Schneider XL 110mm/5.6
¼ sec. @ f/22
Velvia 100F Quickload (w/ polarizer)
Epson 4990

[nathanm]

Was anything added to this or is this actually what appeared when symmetry was imposed? I find this kind of pareidolia totally fascinating.

It's a hybrid of two photos. The main image is a mirror of the broken tree with stripped off bark. Then from a second photo from another nearby fallen tree stump I culled a variety of individual goblin face mirrors and composited that onto the mirrored trunk.

I know what you mean, pareidolia is indeed very fascinating. You do always see a pattern of something in any given texture, but it's not always good. I've done a few others with this theme, with a pareidolia base image fueling the design:

[walter23]

It's a hybrid of two photos. The main image is a mirror of the broken tree with stripped off bark. Then from a second photo from another nearby fallen tree stump I culled a variety of individual goblin face mirrors and composited that onto the mirrored trunk.

I know what you mean, pareidolia is indeed very fascinating. You do always see a pattern of something in any given texture, but it's not always good. I've done a few others with this theme, with a pareidolia base image fueling the design:

Wow, those are absolutely fantastic.

More! More! More!

[John Brady]

Check out the Cypress Knee on the bottom left. When I was dust spotting this I noticed the strange looking creature, scared me anyway.

[nathanm]

He's having an Ent draught! I bet there's lots of monsters hiding in those awesome cypress trees, although they are pretty gnarly all by their lonesome too.

Thanks Walter, glad you like them: The rest of the series can be seen here:

http://nathanmarciniak.com/january09show/

[Joe O'Hara]

Nathan, those blends are creepy and very cool. I'd love to see a print of the first one, especially.

This group of smashed trees is from Acadia NP last fall. Not frightening perhaps, but I'll let others decide...

[nathanm]

Thanks Joe! Here's the print on display from my show in January. It is still available if you're interested.

[Paul Metcalf]

8x10 Salt Prints. Not too scary. The last one reminds me of Shelob protecting her lair. Frodo, come on in...