Dead Tree Thread

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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited November 22, 2008
    Thread is still going strong with so many great shots...i wish i had more time to comment on each one! they are really awesome...
    i need to go find some more to add.....
    Aaron Nelson
  • bryanj87bryanj87 Registered Users Posts: 859 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2009
    This thread could use a bump as well. :)

    Not dead, but dormant, oak tree. Taken with my new Lensbaby Composer.
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  • Allan FGAllan FG Registered Users Posts: 492 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2009
    ABQ Bosque

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  • ShowShotsShowShots Registered Users Posts: 3 Beginner grinner
    edited January 14, 2009
    Here is my addition!

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  • baldmountainbaldmountain Registered Users Posts: 192 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2009
    The one thing I'm learning is to get closer. Yes, even closer, more, closer, keep moving, closer. Bump. There that's it.

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    geoff
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 14, 2009
    Arches, NP
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  • carneyccarneyc Registered Users Posts: 73 Big grins
    edited January 15, 2009
    A few dead tree's
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  • PhotopaddlerPhotopaddler Registered Users Posts: 161 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2009
    Two Shots #1 from Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast...
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    and #2 from Acadia National Park in ME...
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  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2009
    very dead tree
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  • OhadOhad Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins
    edited October 24, 2009
    Here comes my dead tree...
    Seen in Bories in the Luberon (Provence, France).

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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2009
    Just got back from 3 1/2 days of shooting in Yosemite. Downstream from Tuolumne Meadows, I captured this (the entire tree is dead but its exposed dead roots and the color nearby were more interesting in my opinion…):


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  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2009
    Thwack wrote:
    Taft Point, Yosemite National Park, last Sunday:

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    I was at Taft Point again last weekend…the dead tree shown above was knocked down presumably by a storm since I shot that pic a year ago.

    The tree fell towards the edge of the cliff and was taller than it's distance back from the edge. It appears that some of the upper bits of the tree likely went over the cliff (and down to the valley floor below) when it came down.
  • ThwackThwack Registered Users Posts: 487 Major grins
    edited October 24, 2009
    The dead Jeffery Pine on top of Sentinel Dome has some great textures, lines, cracks, etc. Almost any angle looks like it could capture something interesting.

    Here's a shot showing the tree's "brain" (sure looks like an exposed tree-brain to me :D )...


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  • RonA18RonA18 Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 26, 2009
    Long Gone
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    Ron

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  • gecko0gecko0 Registered Users Posts: 383 Major grins
    edited October 30, 2009
    from Hwy 1 in CA

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    (yeah...i know...crazy horizon...that was intentional...but not sure if it actually improved the shot. mwink.gif )

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  • phxmark123phxmark123 Registered Users Posts: 13 Big grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    My monster tree
    Here is my tree, ,don't be afraid.
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  • clikrf8clikrf8 Registered Users Posts: 16 Big grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Love 'em, dead trees and desolate abandoned buildings. Up here in the Pacific Northwest, our dead trees are found on our beaches as driftwood and rotting in the woods. That is why the desert is such a wonderful area to photograph dead trees. No underbrush. Beautiful shots everyone.
  • candersoncanderson Registered Users Posts: 71 Big grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Frozen
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  • bikergirlbikergirl Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited March 6, 2010
    Favorite Dead Tree Shots
    Here´s a couple of my favs from out tour of the USA

    Taken at sunset in the Navajo National Monument, Arizona

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    This was in Arches National Park, Utah

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  • wrzwaldowrzwaldo Registered Users Posts: 20 Big grins
    edited March 17, 2010
    Nothing to spectacular, just some dead trees...

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  • DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2010
    CWSkopec wrote:
    Here's the Famous "Tree Snake" of Anza Borego Desert...

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    OK, ok... it's not so much famous yet, but maybe we can start the Urban Legend here... :D

    That is the famous tree snake that protects PegLeg Smith's gold isnt it.
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  • DeeCajunDeeCajun Registered Users Posts: 515 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
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    one of my favorite trees.. Hyatt Lake, Ashland Oregon
  • Wicked_DarkWicked_Dark Registered Users Posts: 1,138 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    Wow, what a terrific thread, I'm glad it got revived. Dead trees are fascinating and I'm glad I'm not the only one who is drawn to them. Here are some from my travels -

    1. near the top of Mt. Kearsarge, NH
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    2. Two leaners in a pond at sunrise
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    3. The musquash in the morning -
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  • DeeCajunDeeCajun Registered Users Posts: 515 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    Deja vu !
    Holy cow.. I knew my first image looked familiar.. I found this one.. taken one year ago to the date.. from the exact same spot, only the lake was frozen.. creepy!


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  • DeeCajunDeeCajun Registered Users Posts: 515 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    Wicked I love your shots, as usual, I have always loved dead trees, and there are millions in the swamp back home in New Orleans, and here the lake I live on is at an all time low, so the tree trunks that have been underwater for ages are above now, I am so going to take a day to just walk around and shoot them..

    I am glad for this thread too!
  • johnny lichtmannjohnny lichtmann Registered Users Posts: 22 Big grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    Wow, stark simple and very powerful all the same,
    Johnny
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  • CWSkopecCWSkopec Registered Users Posts: 1,325 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2010
    DsrtVW wrote:
    That is the famous tree snake that protects PegLeg Smith's gold isnt it.

    It sure is, Chris! I hear he even spent some time living with and protecting the Marshal South family as well. mwink.gif
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  • shawncshawnc Registered Users Posts: 718 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2010
    I have a load of Dead Trees
    Late Afternoon Sun on a Cypress Snag at Devils Kitchen, Seven Sacred Pools Trail, Sedona, Arizona
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    Mid-Morning sun on Juniper on Airport Loop, Sedona, Arizona
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  • anwmn1anwmn1 Registered Users Posts: 3,469 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2010
    8secondcowboy wrote:
    Hey, your shot is looking wacky on my monitor. Is this one of those natural density filters?... The sun is not even showing up bright enough.

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    No filters were used in this shot. That is not the sun.
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  • DeeCajunDeeCajun Registered Users Posts: 515 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2010
    anwmn1 wrote:
    <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

    No filters were used in this shot. That is not the sun.


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    whatever it is, I like!
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