148. Tree - April 10-16, 2016
Jerry-
Lots of wonderful tree photos you guys, fun to look at! I wrestled with the theme and then gave up. Then later this week while on a shoot in downtown Minneapolis the possibility of getting an urban tree photo came to mind - and this is what I came up with. This is in front of Westminster Presbyterian on Nicollet Mall. I was walking back to the light rail station after photographing a meeting of cardiologists at the Millennium Hotel.
Nikon D750 with 80-400 at about 100 mm, f11 @ 1/640, ISO 800.
Lots of wonderful tree photos you guys, fun to look at! I wrestled with the theme and then gave up. Then later this week while on a shoot in downtown Minneapolis the possibility of getting an urban tree photo came to mind - and this is what I came up with. This is in front of Westminster Presbyterian on Nicollet Mall. I was walking back to the light rail station after photographing a meeting of cardiologists at the Millennium Hotel.
Nikon D750 with 80-400 at about 100 mm, f11 @ 1/640, ISO 800.
Don-
Drove out in the desert to find a tree.
I liked this one though it is dead. There was a fallen
tree trunk that had turned to petrified wood but
it looked too much like rock.
Anyway this is shot with a D810 with a 24 to 70mm
lens. Exposure 1/160 sec; f7.1; ISO 100;
Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering.
Drove out in the desert to find a tree.
I liked this one though it is dead. There was a fallen
tree trunk that had turned to petrified wood but
it looked too much like rock.
Anyway this is shot with a D810 with a 24 to 70mm
lens. Exposure 1/160 sec; f7.1; ISO 100;
Aperture Priority and Pattern Metering.
Byron-
There is a tree about one mile from where my Mom was born and raised. It is on a hill that is the highest in the area. The hill was called by the Norwegian name "Paradis Bakken" (Paradise Ground). On top of that hill is a tree. I've known that tree since I was a young lad. I took a picture of that hill/tree last year and shared it with my cousins. One of them suggested I shoot that same subject during the changing seasons. When this weeks topic came up, Paradis Bakken came to mind. I decide to use it. The problem is the distance from my house. It is about 200 miles away. The only open day was Thursday and I had to be back home early Friday. That meant I would drive all the way there and have 1 opportunity for an interesting sky. It was worth the risk. The day before featured a cloudless sky. The sunset was just a ball of Orange. I was hoping for some clouds to make it interesting. I was happy with the sky that formed when I was there. I'm glad I arrived about 1/2 hour before Sunset because that is when it looked the best. By the time the Sun set it was behind thick clouds and there was nothing to see.
ISO 100, 45mm, f8, 1/400 sec, white balance set to Daylight, EV -1.
There is a tree about one mile from where my Mom was born and raised. It is on a hill that is the highest in the area. The hill was called by the Norwegian name "Paradis Bakken" (Paradise Ground). On top of that hill is a tree. I've known that tree since I was a young lad. I took a picture of that hill/tree last year and shared it with my cousins. One of them suggested I shoot that same subject during the changing seasons. When this weeks topic came up, Paradis Bakken came to mind. I decide to use it. The problem is the distance from my house. It is about 200 miles away. The only open day was Thursday and I had to be back home early Friday. That meant I would drive all the way there and have 1 opportunity for an interesting sky. It was worth the risk. The day before featured a cloudless sky. The sunset was just a ball of Orange. I was hoping for some clouds to make it interesting. I was happy with the sky that formed when I was there. I'm glad I arrived about 1/2 hour before Sunset because that is when it looked the best. By the time the Sun set it was behind thick clouds and there was nothing to see.
ISO 100, 45mm, f8, 1/400 sec, white balance set to Daylight, EV -1.
Deron-
I chose a tree that you probably don't get too see too much in Nebraska, Minnesota or New Mexico... The Palm Tree. This is a shot from the last day of the Redlands Bicycles Classic. I luckily got the theme while I was at the race, so I started looking for tree-related photo ops. I wish I had a little higher vantage point, but I think this one worked out for me pretty good.
I chose a tree that you probably don't get too see too much in Nebraska, Minnesota or New Mexico... The Palm Tree. This is a shot from the last day of the Redlands Bicycles Classic. I luckily got the theme while I was at the race, so I started looking for tree-related photo ops. I wish I had a little higher vantage point, but I think this one worked out for me pretty good.
Kevin-
Well, there aren’t a vast variety of trees growing in the Palm Springs area. Okay, there are actually all sorts of orange trees, lemon trees, etc as well as many different sorts of palm trees, but they all tend to be rather close to houses, businesses and such. Not as photogenic as I would like.
To explore other opportunities I took a trip east to Shields Dates in Indio, knowing they have a date garden you can tour. Yes, there were palm trees but the images I captured there still felt a bit ho-hum to me.
But there was another place I had seen by car driving on I-10 dozens of times, but had never stopped. Desert Center, CA is 70 miles east of Palm Springs. It is/was a town founded in 1921 by “Desert Steve” Ragsdale. Over the years he built an auto repair place, a gas station, a cafe, a market, a store selling camping equipment, etc. “Desert Steve” died in 1971 and one of his sons eventually purchased the operations. In the early 1990s that son, Stanley, had a number of palm trees planted around Desert Center right along I-10, in at least four major groupings (circles, rows, triangles, etc.). Stanley died in 1999 and the trees have been left unattended, unwatered, etc. since that time. So most of them have died, and are simply stumps now. These different sorts of palm trees were what I really wanted to photograph.
Desert Center still has 204 residents according to the last census. But the only “business” that still operates there is the post office. Every thing else is closed, derelict, abandoned, sort of like the palm trees. 29% of the remaining residents live below the federal poverty line and the others aren't far from it.
This image was captured looking south, across I-10, just as the sun was setting. I liked the trucks passing by on the interstate as it gave a sense of perspective about what the traffic would see.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 24-120mm f/4 Nikkor lens set to 24mm. Polarizing filter attached. ISO 800, 1/200th second at f/8.
Well, there aren’t a vast variety of trees growing in the Palm Springs area. Okay, there are actually all sorts of orange trees, lemon trees, etc as well as many different sorts of palm trees, but they all tend to be rather close to houses, businesses and such. Not as photogenic as I would like.
To explore other opportunities I took a trip east to Shields Dates in Indio, knowing they have a date garden you can tour. Yes, there were palm trees but the images I captured there still felt a bit ho-hum to me.
But there was another place I had seen by car driving on I-10 dozens of times, but had never stopped. Desert Center, CA is 70 miles east of Palm Springs. It is/was a town founded in 1921 by “Desert Steve” Ragsdale. Over the years he built an auto repair place, a gas station, a cafe, a market, a store selling camping equipment, etc. “Desert Steve” died in 1971 and one of his sons eventually purchased the operations. In the early 1990s that son, Stanley, had a number of palm trees planted around Desert Center right along I-10, in at least four major groupings (circles, rows, triangles, etc.). Stanley died in 1999 and the trees have been left unattended, unwatered, etc. since that time. So most of them have died, and are simply stumps now. These different sorts of palm trees were what I really wanted to photograph.
Desert Center still has 204 residents according to the last census. But the only “business” that still operates there is the post office. Every thing else is closed, derelict, abandoned, sort of like the palm trees. 29% of the remaining residents live below the federal poverty line and the others aren't far from it.
This image was captured looking south, across I-10, just as the sun was setting. I liked the trucks passing by on the interstate as it gave a sense of perspective about what the traffic would see.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 24-120mm f/4 Nikkor lens set to 24mm. Polarizing filter attached. ISO 800, 1/200th second at f/8.
Paul-
I love trees! (Sorry for the verbose posting.)
And in this episode: 18-55mm lens set at 26mm; aperture priority; ISO 640; 1/640 sec. at f/14.
Song of the Open Road (by Ogden Nash)
I think that I shall never see,
A billboard as lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
I love trees! (Sorry for the verbose posting.)
And in this episode: 18-55mm lens set at 26mm; aperture priority; ISO 640; 1/640 sec. at f/14.
Song of the Open Road (by Ogden Nash)
I think that I shall never see,
A billboard as lovely as a tree.
Perhaps unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.