Comments on: The year in trees

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:11:44 +0000

Fabulous!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:40:41 +0000

Thanks for looking.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:03:58 +0000

There are some amazing picture here, wow!

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:29:48 +0000

Hi Elizabeth – Glad you liked the post. It is hard to capture the essence of a tree in one photo, no doubt. National Geographic online has this video about the enormous trouble and expense they went to to photograph one of the tallest redwoods from top to bottom for a single, composite picture. That’s something we’d never even see otherwise, unless we cut down the surrounding trees!

Serviceberry is handsome in winter, too — at least the species we have, with its dark pinstripes on pale gray bark.

By: Elizabeth Enslin

Elizabeth Enslin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:53:17 +0000

What a great idea. Your beautiful photos inspire me to keep working on getting good tree shots. I’m finding it particularly challenging to capture “treeness” in a single photo. I think I’ve been trying too hard to sum up a tree rather than focusing on particular aspects.

I’m also growing more and more fond of serviceberry. It’s so beautiful in spring and a natural bird feeder throughout summer.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:06:46 +0000

Thanks, Clive. Actually it wasn’t as hard as it might’ve been in previous years because I took significantly fewer photos. Trees have consistently been my favorite photographic subjects, though — far more than people.

We got some ice today, but the temperature eventually climbed high enough above freezing that the precipitation turned to straight rain, and it’s supposed to stay that way overnight. I’d much rather have snow, of course, but anything’s better than freezing rain.

By: leslee

leslee — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:09:33 +0000

These are great, Dave, and nice commentary. I can see how it would have taken you hours to do. I looked at this post the other day and it sent me back to my blog to look at the year past, but the endless yakking of my dad’s TV doesn’t lend itself to introspection. Maybe if I have time when I’m back home.

By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins

Clive Hicks-Jenkins — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:16:38 +0000

A spectacular collection Dave. It must have been a tough call to choose your favourites as all the photographs you post are beautifully considered. (This is really an act of curating, putting together a body of work to represent your photographer’s ‘eye’.)

Today has dawned grey and misty here in the Ystwyth Valley. None of the treacherous ice that turned our drive into a skating rink a week ago. I hope that your Christmas day is a fine one in every way.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:23:44 +0000

You should try it! I thought it would make an easy post, but actually it took hours to pull together. At least I added plenty of new content, though. Glad you liked the collection.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:21:21 +0000

Thanks, Marja-Leena. I keep hoping they’ll be wrong about the freezing rain and we’ll get snow instead, but it doesn’t look good. Still, I hate to complain — it’s the Midwest that’s borne the brunt of this storm system so far. Glad I’m not in retail.