Trees of the American Southwest

[bakubo]

Although nature photography is not my main interest, I do it too sometimes. With the recent Utah and Arizona threads it got me to thinking about some of my nature stuff. I invite everyone to post some photos of trees! Here are a few of mine from the American Southwest. Oh, by the way, trees from anywhere are okay so post away!

These are all scanned from film.

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah:


Arches National Park, Utah:


Arches National Park, Utah:

[bakubo]

These are all from a DSLR.

Zion National Park, Utah:


Zion National Park, Utah:


Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah:

[Dr. Harout]

Nice shots Henry and very beautiful scenery. The last one (B&W) is awesome.

Here's a shot of a palm tree in Beirut.

[paulmurphy]

I particularly like the 2nd one of the first set Henry, the contrast of textures and colours is great.

Doc, nice to see trees among all the rebuilding (there are quite a few cranes in the background)

Here's a couple of trees from me (both autumn shots)

I just came across this one in the woods and was struck by the unusual growth



One in full autumn clothing



Cheers

Murph

[bakubo]

Nice shots Henry and very beautiful scenery. The last one (B&W) is awesome.

Thanks, Doc! The B&W shot was in January and that is snow on the ground.

Here's a shot of a palm tree in Beirut.

I like the way you hid the sun behind the tree. Looks like Beirut is having lots of construction going on. I guess quite a change from the days of the civil war.

[bakubo]

I particularly like the 2nd one of the first set Henry, the contrast of textures and colours is great.

Thanks. Have you ever been there? Such a wonderful place.

Very nice fall colors!

[jbtaylor]

All shots are well done. I wish I could get those results. There is somethig lacking between what I see in the frame and what shows up on the thread. You guys inspire me.
There is no way to choose between Zion and Bryce. They are all lovely shots. I did that trip in 1 day. it was faulty to think that I could get it done in such a short period of time.

[aster]

I love all shots in this thread!

Very inspiring. I'll be looking for some to take and send here but these samples are hard to match. The National Park environments are always abundant wirh interesting natural growth.

Yildiz

[stevecim]

Here are a few gum tree shots, first one I was trying to take the shot from a different angle

The next four shots I was going after the different colours gum tree come in.

[David Kilpatrick]

I won't post it here, or any of them, but in Kelso Churchyard there is one Wellingtonia (giant redwood, sequoia sempervirens) about 150 years old at a guess, along with two or three others a bit younger. I have managed to sell shots of this tree through Alamy, just shots up the trunk to the sky. You would not think a specimen of a classic US west coast forest tree growing in Scotland would get picked ahead of the real thing - but then, you have those gum trees growing in the US and they are equal strangers.

I am considering having two extremely large (50ft+) Lawson's cypress removed. It's a very messy job and the roots are almost impossible to hack up, and do not rot for decades (one of the benefits of the wood). When we came here, we had a row of six removed right in front of the house, and three years ago when we sold part of the garden a row of fifteen was taken out. All these were planted as hedging or screening trees in the mid-1960s, one older cypress in the centre of the garden had reached almost 100ft. I do wish they had planted gum trees instead, then we could have had a pet koala.

David

[KevinBarrett]

A pet koala, David?

[bakubo]

I lived in Silicon Valley (San Francisco Bay Area) for 12 years and also have been to California many times on road trips. Those giant redwoods are awesome. Redwood National Park in northern California is very easily accessible since it is right alongside Highway 101. Another great place that is very close to Silicon Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains is Big Basin Redwoods State Park. I used to go there often for hiking. I must have a few photos of redwoods somewhere so I will have to take a look. I recall that they had the cross section of a huge redwood outside the visitors center. It was about 10 feet in diameter and there were markers on various tree rings: Birth of Jesus Christ, Columbus landing in the Americas, Declaration of Independence, etc.

[stevecim]

We have a few 200+ year old River gums around in my area, but we have had 40+ days, last copule of days, I love the heat, but 40+ and strong hot north winds is staying inside with the aircon running weather

[Tony Meredith]

Here is one i took this morning. The tree has seen better days but made an interesting subject in the morning light.


This is a cropped section from the original. Not sure yet which one i like better.

[Dusty]

I like the first one, Tony. There's more interplay of the light and shadows, and the 2 main branches seem to be interaction with each other.

Dusty