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.
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
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.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
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
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