Same park, no rams head butting. Instead - an old fallen tree.
As always, I am looking forward to and appreciate your reactions, comment and suggestions. Thank you!
It is like an optical illusion for me. At first glance the light spaces were dominant and the dark receded until I could get my brain to focus on what it was. A Gestalt kind of thing. I like it.
Dear all, thank you so much for commenting and liking the "Bottoms-up" picture. I was not sure if this POV would work out in this case, and if it would be at all clear what it is, so I am glad you found the image interesting or appealing. I guess I will keep trying to experiment! Thanks!
@flowerfairyann
Sorry, Ann! It was on the back of my mind that I haven't responded to someone about a question, and only now I realized it was your question about photographing the tree! So.... I here it is. :) Well, I was walking past those trees in the park for a long time, but I never came around photographing one because it was just always the same - same colors as around, same textures as around, just the park full of trees and it was hard to make any of them rally stand out as a subject. This day, I was desperate, and I needed something quickly, and I was around that tree. Just photographing it "normally" was nothing special at all - just one of many, pretty standard. Plus, it looked a bit chaotic with all those old roots sticking out. So, although usually the "rule" is "don't cut off the strong lines of your subject with the frame", I actually thought that containing it within a frame like this would give it a bit of structure instead of the wild random shape it had. So, I tried - and the rest was just fining a nice spot where the background is not too much a distraction from the subject. I hope the backstory helps :) And sorry for overlooking your question before :)
March 13th, 2015
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Sorry, Ann! It was on the back of my mind that I haven't responded to someone about a question, and only now I realized it was your question about photographing the tree! So.... I here it is. :) Well, I was walking past those trees in the park for a long time, but I never came around photographing one because it was just always the same - same colors as around, same textures as around, just the park full of trees and it was hard to make any of them rally stand out as a subject. This day, I was desperate, and I needed something quickly, and I was around that tree. Just photographing it "normally" was nothing special at all - just one of many, pretty standard. Plus, it looked a bit chaotic with all those old roots sticking out. So, although usually the "rule" is "don't cut off the strong lines of your subject with the frame", I actually thought that containing it within a frame like this would give it a bit of structure instead of the wild random shape it had. So, I tried - and the rest was just fining a nice spot where the background is not too much a distraction from the subject. I hope the backstory helps :) And sorry for overlooking your question before :)