I took on this project this year to photograph the same tree in the same angle in all four seasons. A friend of mine, a former coworker, asked me to capture this for him. He offered to buy the images from me. This will be my first commission, though I will probably just give him the images if he wants them.
I recently finished it up with fall. By summer, I was over the idea. I was disappointed with the lack of fall color...why couldn't it have been a red tree or anything more dramatic? I had also hoped for the spring version to have been filled with flowers. This tree, though grand, just wasn't very dynamically different in the seasons.
But here you have it, a year in the life of a tree.
And just so you can see how hardcore I am, I had to lay down on my belly right next to a busy McDonalds to get this shot each time. Oh and I was actually lying behind a snowplow. The dang thing was in my way and made me a little nervous to lie behind!! I went way more than four times to track it's progress. And I sometimes got hooted at while lying there shooting and trying to mind my own business.
So grateful to make TT with this collage. I almost did nothing with these images, so I am really glad that I posted this!! Wow. Here is a funkified, Warhol version of the collage: http://365project.org/amandal/365-year-2/2013-11-15
You always make me smile Amanda ! I can just imagine you getting hooted at, what a cheek ! lol. I love the different images. ( I was going to do the same thing with an old barn, but kept forgetting !)
Love this! I want to do so,etching similar, but haven't found the right subject yet. I would have to travel a bit since we don't get much snow in Portland.
This is a nice collage! Love the angle of that hill it's on. The changes are subtle for Spring, Summer, and Fall but it's cool seeing it through all the seasons. I wouldn't have thought you shot this across the way next to a McDonalds!
@psychographer What do you think, lady. Text with season names or no? I didn't post the other. I think I prefer without the text. Should I put the text version in my extra album? Thanks so much for your kind comments and fav, my friend!!
@thirtysevenways I considered editing in some red somehow, but then thought screw it. Let it be. Thanks, Andy!
Amazing. Incredible. Brilliant. You rock Amanda. Glad you were able to finish. A great challenge. I may try the same thing. Just need to find a tree. Hmmmm.
Either way....awesome. Fav
You did an amazing job! The same angle, consistent exposure. Great dedication. I like without text. Did you see posted somewhere I think on here? a man that took a picture of the same tree for 365 days? Each picture was different and the last day a bunch of people showed up to be there for the last shot. It was very cool!
Great job in collage! I like the soft sky in the spring pic, even if it wasn't flowery. Now you need to pay attention during fall and spring and pick your tree that way!
impressive! i really like this idea... have yet to find the right venue tho'... maybe you should find a really colourful tree right now and choose it for your new subject?
@northy It's so hard to find a lone tree, though. I will keep my eyes out for one. This one has such a great shape and I love the great hill, but so undramatic. I was bummed! Thanks, friend!!
This is wonderful! I remember your winter addition. So fun to see all the seasons represented. It is an awfully special tree and setting. You did it justice in every season! FAV
Absolutely fantastic!!!! Gallery worthy.....truly!!!! I am sure your friend will love them!!! I would like to try this someday. Great job, one you should be very proud of. FAV
Fab, I can't decide whether I prefer the one with text or without, but I do love the tree's subtle seasonal changes, it's a very peaceful collage. I do have a hilarious picture of you laying on the floor behind a snowplough in my head :) fav
Oh wow, Amanda! You are really good with doing the project! Well done! Oh you can try to take a picture not only of a tree but a scenery? Love this collage and idea!)
This is a wonderful collection of the tree. Funny but I was thinking of doing the same thing the other day the decided it would be too much hard work. I am glad you persevered , it paid off !
Love your collage and each shot. How did you do this as I do not have an option like this on pic monkey but straight across and it came out so small on my tree collage. Yours looks awesome compared to mine. FAV
@adamj This project took me from March until now. It was a bear, but worth it it seems. Can't wait to find the right tree for the next time I do this. Thanks so much, my friend!! I appreciate you!
Great collage! I'm doing something similar, but with monthly shots - I have two trees and a view on the go, a photo from the same place on the same date each month!
I know what you mean about wanting more dynamism from season to season. I'm going to choose a different spot for my seasonals next year too. Assuming there's a next year. I'm pretty burnt out.
@rennes So do your words. Thanks so much, my friend. Wish I could have joined your fun sounding 365 meet up the other day. Did you know Jo and Lucy outside of 365? What a great group of talented ladies!!:)
@squamloon I loved your barn scene! I wish I knew of more lone trees. They are tough to find. Maybe I need a scene. Are you in year one? This year I did my project much differently than I did the first. I shoot when I want. I bring the camera along when I feel like it. I find that I probably take photos 3-4 times a week and I get enough good photos for the week. I still shoot regularly, but I am not killing myself to do a photo of the day every day. It has been freeing. Thanks, friend!
oh i love the idea and your determination! like the comp with diagonal cuts as well. what we do for our shots, i tell ya. hardcore indeed. excellent collage even tho the fall colors didn't shout out!
@bobfoto Perhaps the Niice variety would work here? Thanks for the comment on a non selfie, my friend. This was a time consuming project that I was so uninto after the first photo. I was over it come the spring shot. I sucked at summer (I think that I took the photo on 4 separate occasions in the summer) and fall was totally halfhearted...the leaves were barely colored. But together in a collage, it worked.
@darsphotos I did this in picmonkey in the collage tools. I found one that was this orientation...I just searched around. And figured out how to stretch the size of the whole frame of images to allow for the entire image to get in there. I've made numerous collages and hadn't figured that out until recently. Let me know if you need help next time and I can try to walk you though it. Thanks so much, my friend!!!
@amandal I cannot believe that you did this in pic monkey. Wow, I may take you up on this or use what I did, the trees that I photographed and have you help me with that. I will check it out first. Thanks for the offer of help. Been so sick with intestinal problems for almost 3 weeks. Long story. Have someone coming to repair and replace fans in our house tomorrow morning so may have time in there to play if I feel ok. Keeping notes next to my computer so this is on my list now. Appreciate it so much.
@amandal Thank you Amanda, you would have loved it - a lot of fun, laughs and cake! I have got to know Lucy and Jo through 365 - such a great place! : ))
While you may be less than thrilled with the outcome, I think it's very successful. It's about the process. Well done, you. And as Caz @cazann said, I too had thoughts of the same, the field across the street, but forgot too. Doh. Well, there's always next year, wait, did I just say that?? A fav nonetheless :-)
@seejillrun Hope you find your subject. Thanks so much for the sweet comments, Jill!
@fauxtography365 Nutty, eh? It's on the side of our Kroger strip mall. There is a berm with the tree that I discovered last year. "Aha!! A lone tree right in the middle of suburbia!" I can park nearby, walk over and get a few quick shots with the kids in the car, but yes, right by where people drive in and out of MickeyD's. Thanks, friend!
@losthorizon Really appreciate your great words and kind fav, my friend. Thanks so much for your support with this series. Hope that you find your tree or subject. I think I want a scene for the next one.
@bpaquette Thanks so so much, Barbara. I was so pleased to find this tree in the middle of suburbia. I wasn't super thrilled with the shots, but in a collage, they came out pretty special in the end. Thanks!
@paulaw I think you are right!! Thanks kindly, Paula!!
@sunshinephoto5 I didn't see that, but it sounds like it could have been very cool (maybe boring to follow the day to day, though?). Thanks so much for your great comments and support, Dawn!!
@vickisfotos It helped that the snow plow didn't move and I knew I had to lay down right behind it. It actually made me annoyed having it there, but it did help in a way, too. Thanks so much for the fav and sweet words, Vicki!!
@archaeofrog Good call, Katie. I wish that lone trees weren't so hard to find. Hope to get a better one next time (and yes, I agree about the spring sky!). Thanks, friend!
@eyesmile I always really love and appreciate your amazing comments, Gena. Thanks so much for them, the super encouragement and the fav. To be honest, I was really not into these photos. I held off and hadn't even posted the last 2. The other day, I thought "What the heck?" and played around and threw the collage together. I am so excited by the great response it got. It did come out better than I expected seeing them all together. Thanks so much, kind friend!
@ericdibosco Thanks so much...and true, true words! Thanks, Eric!!! You helped put it there. I'm always so shocked to make PP these days. My next shot made it, too, which is nuts to me!
@amandal My feeling about some of mine that has made PP (not that I've had many), like http://365project.org/ericdibosco/365/2013-10-24, is that it is not always about a good photograph, but sometimes just about the amount of reaction it has caused...(not the case here, though...)
@sewsharyn Thanks so much, Sharon. Really appreciate that. I'll admit, I was grumbling starting in the spring...no flowers and pretty angry come fall with no color to speak of, but...in the end it still made a nice collage and showed the passage of time.
@islandk8 Isn't that crazy?! It's on the side of our Kroger (grocery store) strip mall. And where I had to lay was right where people drove when pulling out of Mickey D's. I saw it early in the year and was so psyched to find a lone tree so close to home. It was perfect, all but the lack of dramatic change. Thanks kind friend!!
Thanks so much, my friends. Really blown away by the response to this one, that I was not even going to use (til I saw the shots together in a collage and thought it was alright!). Happy weekend!
@jo13 No worries. Thanks so much for the fav, Jo!!! Ironically, I was so dissatisfied with the images that I almost didn't use them for anything. So glad I played.
@anazad511 Oh my goodness, that would have been amazing had the tree cooperated for me. I almost didn't even use the images I was so disappointed by it's lack of performance. Glad I did anyway. Thanks, friend!!
@losthorizon You are so funny. Thanks, Beau. Hope that I find another subject for my next season shot! I need a more dramatic lone tree, yet they are so tough to find. A golf course, perhaps?
@amandal They are! I would never want to influence you're muse, but don't feel you have to keep the idea to one singular tree. Maybe try a scene....like a path lined with trees, or....that's about all I got. But you get what I'm saying. Just food for thought.
@thirtysevenways I considered editing in some red somehow, but then thought screw it. Let it be. Thanks, Andy!
Either way....awesome. Fav
I know what you mean about wanting more dynamism from season to season. I'm going to choose a different spot for my seasonals next year too. Assuming there's a next year. I'm pretty burnt out.
@squamloon I loved your barn scene! I wish I knew of more lone trees. They are tough to find. Maybe I need a scene. Are you in year one? This year I did my project much differently than I did the first. I shoot when I want. I bring the camera along when I feel like it. I find that I probably take photos 3-4 times a week and I get enough good photos for the week. I still shoot regularly, but I am not killing myself to do a photo of the day every day. It has been freeing. Thanks, friend!
@alisonp Thanks so much, Alison! It's fun to be hardcore:)!
@twr Thanks!!
@mikeable Thanks, ya hottie! You look like a creeper, though in your profile. Are you?!
@cazann Love that, Caz. Can't wait to see your barn...when you don't forget to shoot it. Thanks, lady!!
@anazad511 Thanks so much for your kind words and fav, lady!!
@fauxtography365 Nutty, eh? It's on the side of our Kroger strip mall. There is a berm with the tree that I discovered last year. "Aha!! A lone tree right in the middle of suburbia!" I can park nearby, walk over and get a few quick shots with the kids in the car, but yes, right by where people drive in and out of MickeyD's. Thanks, friend!
@taffy Thanks, Taffy!!!
@losthorizon Really appreciate your great words and kind fav, my friend. Thanks so much for your support with this series. Hope that you find your tree or subject. I think I want a scene for the next one.
@bpaquette Thanks so so much, Barbara. I was so pleased to find this tree in the middle of suburbia. I wasn't super thrilled with the shots, but in a collage, they came out pretty special in the end. Thanks!
@paulaw I think you are right!! Thanks kindly, Paula!!
@vickisfotos It helped that the snow plow didn't move and I knew I had to lay down right behind it. It actually made me annoyed having it there, but it did help in a way, too. Thanks so much for the fav and sweet words, Vicki!!
@allisonraposa Thanks so much for the fav, Allison!!
@seanoneill You are the best, Sean. Thank you!!!
@archaeofrog Good call, Katie. I wish that lone trees weren't so hard to find. Hope to get a better one next time (and yes, I agree about the spring sky!). Thanks, friend!
@rellimdj Thank you, Joe!!
@kwind Thanks so much, my friend. Appreciate that!!
@espyetta Really appreciate that, MaryBeth. Thanks so much for the kind words and fav!
@my_photofun Thank you so much, Darinka. So appreciate that!
@pflaume Really appreciate your kind words and fav, my friend!!
@alia_801 Thanks so much, sweet lady!!
@roseolivia Thanks very much, Rachel! So glad he asked me to do it!
@soboy5 Really appreciate that, Danny. Thank you so much!
@jdr4690 Wow, thanks so much, Rob. I appreciate that!
@islandk8 Isn't that crazy?! It's on the side of our Kroger (grocery store) strip mall. And where I had to lay was right where people drove when pulling out of Mickey D's. I saw it early in the year and was so psyched to find a lone tree so close to home. It was perfect, all but the lack of dramatic change. Thanks kind friend!!
@rennes @happysnap @pflaume @amrita21 @soboy5 @wind_of_the_sothern_sea @cazann
Thanks so much, my friends. Really blown away by the response to this one, that I was not even going to use (til I saw the shots together in a collage and thought it was alright!). Happy weekend!
@anazad511 Oh my goodness, that would have been amazing had the tree cooperated for me. I almost didn't even use the images I was so disappointed by it's lack of performance. Glad I did anyway. Thanks, friend!!
@losthorizon You are so funny. Thanks, Beau. Hope that I find another subject for my next season shot! I need a more dramatic lone tree, yet they are so tough to find. A golf course, perhaps?