Dennis833 Loc: Australia

If a tree falls in the desert does anybody hear?
Does anybody hear the forest fall?

nervous2 Loc: Provo, Utah

I typically prefer taking pictures of married trees with big families.

srg

haha

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Move over Joyce Kilmer, there's a new sheriff in town.

neco Loc: Western Colorado Mountains

In a word, maybe.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

It's a takeoff on a Joni Mitchell lyric in Big Yellow Taxi:

"They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em"

The most famous line is in the chorus: "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I take photos of trees if there’s a feature I consider attractive. Age, character, shape etc. I can’t see why any image of any thing dictates whether or not you’re a photographer.

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repleo Loc: Boston

The point is to see the tree in different ways, in different light, different seasons etc.

The first photography course I took was by a teacher who had spent her whole carreer taking pictures of her neighborhood and it adjacent urban park. She only shot in film and only in black and white. Our course assignment was to find a small convenient 'place' that we could visit regularly and shoot under different conditions. We figured out the 'exposure triangle' by trying to produce different results from the same subjects. The teacher knew nothing about digital cameras and paid little heed to 'gear' but she taught me how to explore ways to 'see' a subject.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Well Grandpa, you stuck your foot in it this time, didn't you? What you thought would be a fun little discussion has led to another Hedgehog civil war and folks casting apersions on your character. I like your photography and appreciate the efforts you take to share with others, not only on this forum, but in your day to day life. There no doubt many other subjects other than the lone tree that had you made the same statement a similar outbread of apolexy would have resulted.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

I have to share the front range roads here in Colorado, but I shouldn't complain. There are many photographers that do great with less subject material. Thank you for some of the locations and information. I am adding it to my photographic "to do" list. I also love the four corners area. I get down there as often as possible.

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One finds one’s ironies where one seeks to find them. Hopefully you will find further irony in this:

Yes I despise cotton candy water which is not processing but mainly done directly by exposure and no I do not find processed sunsets to be generally bogus where the processing is necessary largely due to the extreme range involved.

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Same as sharply frozen wings on hummingbirds.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If a tree falls in the forest, was the image in focus?

jburlinson Loc: Austin, TX

I may be reading between the lines of your op and some of your follow-ups, but it seems to me that what irks you is the apparent compulsion of many photographers to explain their work, whether it's of trees or any other subject matter.

The epitome of this is the so-called "artist's statement", where the photographer (or any other person with pretensions to being an artist) is expected (and often required by exhibitors or contests) to provide some sort of narrative that explicates or justifies the images, especially a collection of images.

Here's a random statement of the importance of an artists statement that I pulled off the web -- there are many others of similar import:

"It’s impossible to bring a body of work to its full potential without being able to articulate in words what our photographs say and why they are meaningful to us personally. While not all of our reasons for creating a project are relevant to include in an artist statement, having the discussion is a mandatory part of the process in order to create a cohesive and powerful body of work."

If this is what you're complaining about, I'm right there beside you. If it's just that, for some reason, you don't like tree pictures, I can't be of any help.

dave.m

unfortunately now vandalised apparently. Here is a stunner of it (not my photo but I wish it was) before it was attacked