post your trees!

jp · 8-Mar-2020, 07:53

Originally Posted by howlingsun

Intrepid 8x10 MkII
Fujifilm Provia 100F

Developed in Tetenol E6 in Stearman Press 8x10 tank.

Very nice! Nice mix of cool and warm tones and feel for winter.

**Corran** · 10-Mar-2020, 18:28

Angel Oak - Johns Island, SC
Mercury 4x5 3D-printed camera, Schneider 47mm XL, T-Max 100 dev'd in Pyrocat 1:1:120 EMA

Some backstory - everyone at art festivals from South Carolina always asks if I'm been to the Angel Oak. It's by far the most famous live oak tree out here. I've been meaning to go for years and had a spontaneous opportunity to make a drive out to the SC coastal area so off I went this past Sunday, and discovered the Angel Oak Park was only open 1 to 5. I got there about 12:45 and was stunned to see a line of people waiting to get in to this park - probably about 50 folks. There's nothing there but the tree and a gift shop. I grabbed my bag and the gates opened promptly at 1pm.

While I was walking in I was called out to by the attendant who strictly told me no tripods unless I was "behind the picnic area," about 100 feet from the tree. I think the issue is simply they don't want to deal with people complaining about photographers and tripods in the way of their selfies - because the whole area was crawling with families. Kids everywhere, with the attendant yelling to not climb the tree. There was no way I was getting a good distant shot anyway, but luckily I had packed my Mercury 4x5 and 47mm XL, and quickly fired off 5 shots handheld while walking around the tree and we left. This was one of them.

To be honest, the tree wasn't that impressive to me. The Friendship Oak down in Mississippi is a much more sprawling and interesting tree, and I've personally found or know of live oaks as big if not bigger out in other places, including GA. But, I think I bagged at least this and one other interesting shot, so I can have "my" Angel Oak pic at the festivals. On the bright-side, almost every Angel Oak photo I've seen is pretty much identical. The shape of the tree is distinctive in those shots of the whole tree back some ways away. My close and up shot is a bit different than the norm, if not as distinctly the "Angel Oak."

PS:
Here's Clyde Butcher's take on Angel Oak:
https://clydebutcher.com/s/photograp...outh-carolina/

**Steven Ruttenberg** · 10-Mar-2020, 19:30

I think it is pretty well done. Exposure seem right and the damned thing has a face, arms and a mouth and seems to be coming down on you to eat you alive. Like the Ents in Lord of the Rings. Well done.