This is my contribution to Ann-Christine’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Striped and Checked prompt.
As is frequently the case with me, I started of with a couple of ideas for the challenge and shot off at a tangent when I started selecting images.
I quickly realised that I was picking mostly striped images. That realisation was followed by my noticing that quite a few of the photos had something to do with trees.
Motion blurred trees. Taken by panning the camera upwards during exposure.
Tree shadows on the snow. Although the image is as much about the fallen branch sticking out of the snow as the shadows.
Tree branches as a window display. I rather like the way the corrugated metal siding on the building echoes the pattern of the Paper Birch branches in the windows.
A maze of tree trunks. Taken on a walk around the neighborhood in autumn a couple of years ago. I was thinking of going back at different times of the year but I can’t find the spot despite knowing which trail I was on.
16 replies on “Tree Stripes”
teee shadows on the snow is my fav of this post and funny how you cannot find the spot of the bottom photo – such it is with getting adventure nature shots! 😉
I haven’t walked that way for a while. My plan is to stop looking for it and it may appear. I’ve been walking that way for years but this and a vertical version taken at the same time are the only shots I have of such a maze of tree trunks.
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Great set of natural stripes!
Thanks Sue. I completely ignored the checked part of the prompt when I realized how much variety I had in tree stripes.
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Lovely choices David. I was amazed to read that the window trees are paper. I thought I was looking at a reflection of actual trees. Very clever trompe l’oeil
Thanks Tina. The window display is branches of Paper Birch trees on the main street in the nearest town. I seem to think that the business is real estate but whatever it is it’s a very odd window display.
Excellent examples. Well done.
Thanks John. I was surprised how much variety I ended up with in four photos.
You are always well organized, David. These are well chosen and perfect for the challenge. As a tree lover – I can only applaud! The paper Birches are really well placed.
Thanks Ann-Christine. The four tree photos had so much variety I abandoned thoughts on checkers as any would have broken the tree theme.
I love that.
Thanks. I have been wondering if it dates back to my time in art school in the late 1970s. We’d be given a brief or theme and encouraged to get as creative as possible.
I am sure there is something in that.
It’s something I have been thinking about for a while now as some of my recent challenge posts have been off a a large tangent.