Forest Moasic: Daniel in the Irving TX group on Flickr posted a shot called 'Breathe' that was the inspiration for this. I used a 100+ year old oak tree at the Sowers Cemetery in...

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Feb 18, 2015 19:44:44 #

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

Daniel in the Irving TX group on Flickr posted a shot called 'Breathe' that was the inspiration for this. I used a 100+ year old oak tree at the Sowers Cemetery in Irving for the source material.

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Feb 18, 2015 19:49:11 #

Andrea.Jarrell Loc: Mount Airy, NC

Interesting composition. It looks as though you were looking down on the tree?

Feb 18, 2015 19:51:24 #

djtravels Loc: Georgia boy now

I don't know what you did, but it looks great.

Feb 18, 2015 22:23:15 #

plessner Loc: North Dakota

djtravels wrote:

I don't know what you did, but it looks great.

I agree :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Feb 19, 2015 11:20:36 #

LLucas Loc: Upstate South Carolina, USA

This looks like a meditation mandala- and one that's perfect for us tree huggers!
I love it.

Feb 19, 2015 16:33:00 #

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

Andrea.Jarrell wrote:

Interesting composition. It looks as though you were looking down on the tree?

Just an effect of the mirroring process. The Great Grandpaw Post Oak I used for the source material Had a 3'+ trunk and a canopy (even this time of year) that probably exceeded 80'!

Feb 19, 2015 16:39:16 #

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

djtravels wrote:

I don't know what you did, but it looks great.

Thanks! I used a 'mirroring' process. I flipped the original image horizontally and merged it with the 1st one. I then took that image and flipped it vertically and merged the two. Once I had a combined image I just played around with a few filters (I use GIMP 2.8) until I got something I liked....

Feb 19, 2015 16:41:13 #

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

ajohnston3 wrote:

Daniel in the Irving TX group on Flickr posted a shot called 'Breathe' that was the inspiration for this. I used a 100+ year old oak tree at the Sowers Cemetery in Irving for the source material.

Very cool!

Feb 19, 2015 16:41:41 #

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

LLucas wrote:

This looks like a meditation mandala- and one that's perfect for us tree huggers!
I love it.

Thank you kindly.... I already have my grand-daughters (3 & 5) making their own 'Dream Catchers' !!

Feb 20, 2015 11:49:40 #

Tazzy Loc: Tampa area

Very interesting, like it.

Feb 22, 2015 07:48:46 #

jkoar Loc: The Gunks, NY

Ironically, it does resemble lungs. Very interesting shot and composition.

Feb 24, 2015 15:32:12 #

asjohnston3 Loc: Irving, TX

jkoar wrote:

Ironically, it does resemble lungs. Very interesting shot and composition.

Thanks... Your comments are appreciated. A very appropriate comment as this shot by Daniel Livas was my inspiration. Here's a link to his Flickr photostream....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_livas/

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