Gnarly Tree
Feb 17, 2024 11:46:24 #
My favorite, and I have photographed it many, many times 
I hope you like the B&W treatment 🩶🖤🤍🖤🩶
I hope you like the B&W treatment 🩶🖤🤍🖤🩶
Feb 17, 2024 21:40:40 #
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Feb 18, 2024 11:56:11 #
joecichjr wrote:
My favorite, and I have photographed it many, many times
I hope you like the B&W treatment 🩶🖤🤍🖤🩶
I hope you like the B&W treatment 🩶🖤🤍🖤🩶
That IS the tree in its natural state, and I did say MY favorite
Feb 18, 2024 11:56:43 #
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Feb 18, 2024 16:57:29 #
djsteul wrote:
Love gnarly trees!
I do too, especially this one when the leaves are off. Due to the gnarliness of the branches, you get a lot of different photographic "looks" depending on the angel from which you shoot. I have been taking shots of this guy for over twenty years.
Feb 18, 2024 16:59:22 #
Feb 19, 2024 09:00:39 #
If you want gnarly trees, find an old hedgerow of Osage orange (hedgeapple) trees in a rural area. They were planted close together not only for a windbreak but perhaps to function as fence posts too. The competition for light and nutrients makes them grow in all sorts of weird (wonderful?) ways. Just look out for the thorns.
Feb 19, 2024 10:29:53 #
Feb 19, 2024 10:31:06 #
FredCM wrote:
If you want gnarly trees, find an old hedgerow of Osage orange (hedgeapple) trees in a rural area. They were planted close together not only for a windbreak but perhaps to function as fence posts too. The competition for light and nutrients makes them grow in all sorts of weird (wonderful?) ways. Just look out for the thorns.
Four blocks away from here, there is a row planted as a border in front of a condo complex. Oranges all over the place in the fall
Feb 19, 2024 13:32:41 #
I like the trees in the winter when their leaves have fallen. Love to see their bare twisty branches. Nice b/w shot Joe. 
Feb 19, 2024 17:32:07 #
Sylvias wrote:
I like the trees in the winter when their leaves have fallen. Love to see their bare twisty branches. Nice b/w shot Joe.
In the past twenty or so years, since digital, I have taken probably a hundred shots of this guy - all, as you say, when the leaves are off. It is so gnarly and full of personality, and no matter the point of view from where you take a shot, you are going to get something lovely
A couple people said the shot was too busy. Well, that's the way it looks - and that is why I love it Life unfolding 
Feb 19, 2024 23:13:20 #
Reuss Griffiths
Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
Joe, sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. If you really want to see a gnarly tree, check out a Harvy Lauder Walking Stick Tree especially in the winter with no leaves on.
Feb 20, 2024 13:50:08 #
joecichjr wrote:
In the past twenty or so years, since digital, I h... (show quote)
I forgot to say my favourites are dead trees!
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