post your trees!

[takpro]

Beautiful.

Snow Gum Grove, Infrared

Gelatin-silver photograph on Freestyle Private Reserve VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.3cm, from an Efke IR820 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Nikkor-W 210mm f5.6 lens and a IR680 filter.

[takpro]

Beautiful.

You've got it right scheinfluger_77 and barnacle, bottle trees (Brachychiton rupestris) are weird and tough. Their trunks store water which is a useful adaption for places where it might not rain for a few years. Farmers often leave bottle trees in fields as drought insurance because cattle will eat the core of these trees after they are cut down and split. Here's another example:

Australian Icon: from the Biloela road.

Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic MCC111 FB VC, image area 24.7cm X 19.5cm, from a Tri-X negative exposed in a home-assembled Bender 8x10 view camera fitted with a Schneider Symmar 300mm f5.6 lens and a #25 red filter.

[Arkasha_from_Russia]

Great one Arkasha! A picture like this makes me realize the value of this thread. I probably would have walked right past this spot, or more likely, never have gone out with my large format camera on a day like this in the winter! Great vision.

Thank you! I have long hesitated to take a picture or not. I do not like the branch, sawn person specifically.

[David Schaller]

What struck me first were the great tones, the darker tree in front of the lighter background. I also like the unruliness of the foreground tree against the straighter, more "normal" trees in the background. So the sawn limbs, the "ugliness," is kind of the cool thing.

[Mark Darragh]

I'll keep Maris' Snow Gum theme going. Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) growing on flanks of Mount Howitt, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia.

Technical details:
Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 – rated 64 iso
Development: Hypercat 5:50:1500 for 24 min @ 20˚C, agitation for 1 minute then 10 sec every 6 min

[monotux]

I'll keep Maris' Snow Gum theme going. Snow Gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora) growing on flanks of Mount Howitt, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia.

Technical details:
Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Schneider Super Symmar XL 80mm

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100 – rated 64 iso
Development: Hypercat 5:50:1500 for 24 min @ 20˚C, agitation for 1 minute then 10 sec every 6 min

That is the best image I've seen in this thread, great work!

[Maris Rusis]

Bravo,Mark Darragh that's a seriously good picture of a spectacular Snow Gum. Your tree must be flourishing in a tough environment because it's growing elegantly but mostly sideways.

Here's some Snow Gums growing on the sheltered side of a hill where they can grow upwards. But not too far. Mountain storms and snow load still break a lot of branches off.

Snow Gums, April, Infrared.

Gelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 21.3cm X 16.3cm, from an Efke IR820 4x5 negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF double extension field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 75mm f5.6 lens and IR680 filter.

[Vogel]

Three Trees



Toyo 810m, Sironar N 360mm, Conatct print on Ilford Multigrade FB.

[JerryP]

From Southern California, on the Holy Jim Trail in the Cleveland National Forest. Burned out tree.



4x5 Crown Graphic, 150mm Sironar, Shanghai film. Scan from an Epson 4990.

[Mark Darragh]

Thank you Maris and monotux for your kind comments. That tree is indeed growing on an extremely exposed ridge top, perched above The Terrible Hollow and not far from the Cross-cut Saw and Devil’s Staircase. (The walkers who named those features in the 1930’s must have had a rather bad experience in the area!).

This is one of its younger siblings growing not too far away on the Cross-cut Saw overlooking The Terrible Hollow. The Razor and the Viking are the peaks in the background.





Arca Swiss F Line Field 4x5, Rodenstock Apo Sironar-S 150mm , Lee O21, TMY 400 @ 400, Hypercat 1:10:300 semi stand development: 33 min