Trees
At some point I realized I take a lot of photos of trees…
Minutia
Sometimes it’s nice to come to a complete stop and notice the details. This photo was taken a bit off the more usual paths in Muir Woods in California.
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Tree from Badger Pass
Photo circa 2008 from the actual pass above Badger Pass Ski Area in California.
Go for a walk in the woods and listen to this
Imagine you’re walking through a forest. I’m guessing you’re thinking of a collections of trees — what we foresters call a “stand” — with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns. Yes, trees are the foundation of forestes, but a forest is much more than what you see.
~ Suzanne Simard from, https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other
Go for a walk in the woods, and listen to this short TED talk. You may go into the wood seeing trees, but you’ll come out having heard much more.
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Bertolt
Unlike the other townspeople, who are constantly doing things together, he is content in his own company — a perfect embodiment of the great film director Andrei Tarkovsky’s advice to the young.
Most of all, the boy cherishes his time with Bertolt — the ancient oak he loves to climb.
~ Maria Popova from, https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/12/bertolt-jacques-goldstyn/
Trees.
More recently I’ve been drawn more strongly to photographing them, standing under them and just generally appreciating them.
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Upper west side
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Day 77/100 – walk
soon…
soon…
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Day 20/100 – Something different
(Part 21 of 104 in series, 100 Days of Training (2017))
Nope. Just more running. Here’s the sun rising on its way to a rendezvous with the moon. #100days #artdudeplacement https://constantine.name/100days #2017eclipse
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Sarah P Duke Gardens
Perspective and scale; Tiny moss or a hill covered in tall grass? Bald Cypress tree or the leg of an enormous dinosaur? Towering Red Oak tree or a single neuron? Moss on a rock or an Alpine mountain face with a distant forest? Spending the morning trying to exercise my visual perspectives.
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