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Pete_W said:
Wonderful image Xavier! I like the b&w version the best.
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Thank you, Pete!! I prefer the B/W version too.

It is difficult to see from the distance and the color of the brown land, but on the right side of the tree (as we watch the picture) there is a group of deer challenging the hunter tower o_O
 
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xaviergut said:
Thank you, Pete!! I prefer the B/W version too.

It is difficult to see from the distance and the color of the brown land, but on the right side of the tree (as we watch the picture) there is a group of deer challenging the hunter tower o_O
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Oh wow, I missed that. Just went back to take a look!
 
Pete_W said:
Wonderful image Xavier! I like the b&w version the best.
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I agree it is a good picture, well framed and composed. But I find trees without leaves kind of depressing. I don't know how you people that live where trees lose leaves in the winter can get by and not feel down. For that reason I like the color picture better. It seems to be showing some green in the tree, a hint of chlorophyll and hope for life.

(For a full disclosure, some trees here lose their leaves in winter - those that were imported from frozen lands keep that habit. But indigenous trees and trees imported from warm climates are green all year.)
 
CharlesH said:
I agree it is a good picture, well framed and composed. But I find trees without leaves kind of depressing. I don't know how you people that live where trees lose leaves in the winter can get by and not feel down. For that reason I like the color picture better. It seems to be showing some green in the tree, a hint of chlorophyll and hope for life.

(For a full disclosure, some trees here lose their leaves in winter - those that were imported from frozen lands keep that habit. But indigenous trees and trees imported from warm climates are green all year.)
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I totally disagree Charles! I love winter trees - they have a complex and fascinating labyrinth of trunks and branches that provide a beautiful and organic experience to the viewer. Summer trees in comparison are nice, but the beautiful complexity of their form is hidden behind the foliage.

Just look at the beauty of this specimen:


Winter Tree by Paul Kaye, on Flickr
 
pdk42 said:
Just look at the beauty of this specimen:
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I assumed wrongly you used the 70-200 Pro judging by the focal length it looked like and ha it twas the 24-105. 77mm is the legend Pentax f1.8 lens famous for it's pop, would be interesting comparison on this one.

The 24-105 f4 is a must have, I knew what I wanted from the start. My photos last week showed how good it is at backlighting and the contrast is there in spades. I would hate to not own it, great for video also, something some years back video quality of this kind I would never have separately gone for, never even a camcorder.

Sometimes to got to stand back and go wow this stuff is great. We probably haven't got the best of it, it's already high level.
 
pdk42 said:
I love winter trees - they have a complex and fascinating labyrinth of trunks and branches that provide a beautiful and organic experience to the viewer.
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The mathematics of trees follows a pattern known as "branching fractals". The lower branches grow fractal branches, and in turn those fractal branches have their own smaller fractal branches, and this fractal branching continues, smaller and smaller, on up to the top of the tree. I've seen some amazing branching fractal mathematical models, but it's more amazing to me that nature created this branching fractal process for trees. The lungs, human lungs, follow this same mathematical model, with eleven orders of branching that transport air and blood between the trachea and the heart all the way to the tiny alveoli. The inside of lungs looks very much like your picture of that winter tree.

Water and nutrients are passed up through the tree branches, via capillary action. There is a limit to how high capillary action can lift water, but tall trees defy this limit in a unique way. They transfer water to a pool part way up the tree, and then start again with new capillaries to continue lifting the water.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce KIlmer
1913
 
CharlesH said:
The mathematics of trees follows a pattern known as "branching fractals". The lower branches grow fractal branches, and in turn those fractal branches have their own smaller fractal branches, and this fractal branching continues, smaller and smaller, on up to the top of the tree. I've seen some amazing branching fractal mathematical models, but it's more amazing to me that nature created this branching fractal process for trees. The lungs, human lungs, follow this same mathematical model, with eleven orders of branching that transport air and blood between the trachea and the heart all the way to the tiny alveoli. The inside of lungs looks very much like your picture of that winter tree.

Water and nutrients are passed up through the tree branches, via capillary action. There is a limit to how high capillary action can lift water, but tall trees defy this limit in a unique way. They transfer water to a pool part way up the tree, and then start again with new capillaries to continue lifting the water.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce KIlmer
1913
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Thanks Charles for that thoughtful post. I was aware that the branching pattern had an underlying similarity to fractals. It's quite amazing really how we find mathematical connections to things in nature. Indeed, at the deepest level, the natural world finds itself amenable to mathematical analysis - whether that be finding fractal patterns in trees and lungs, or the mapping of Lie Groups to quantum chromodynamics. But does our world run on mathematics, or do we make our maths fit our world? It's an age-old question.

I loved the Kilmer poem - but I prefer to consider that it was evolution that "made" the tree, not God.
 
CharlesH said:
I've seen some amazing branching fractal mathematical models, but it's more amazing to me that nature created this branching fractal process for trees.
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We often forget that this fractal model of tree branches is also repeated underground with the entire network of roots that search for water... it is like another tree in negative and underground :rolleyes:
 
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