It's a beautiful place to have in your backyard. A grove of trees can be a sacred space.
An aside about spirituality: There is a theory that as humans evolved and became more intelligent, we faced increasing anxiety over the prospect of death. Changes slowly occurred in the brain by natural selection that allowed for "religious/spiritual experiences" whose biological purpose was to help us live with the prospect of death. Of course, I've deliberately phrased this in purely evolutionary terms; a religious person could simply say that God made up with the ability to apprehend his presence. Whatever your beliefs, spaces live Larry's grove still elicit great feelings of both elation and tranquility. These feelings are also difficult to catch with only a camera do the narrative becomes so important. As for me, there is a wild bamboo grove that somehow started growing off the running/walking trail I use here in Rockbridge County. It's a favorite place of mine but I have never been able to capture its presence adequately in pictures. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:57 PM, steve harley wrote: > >> on 2011-09-20 23:21 Larry Colen wrote >>> >> >> i also wonder if you've seen James Balog's work depicting big trees by >> assembling multiple images taken while ascending, or otherwise; i met him >> when he'd just come out with _Survivors_, his series of animals on white >> backgrounds (we used several of his photos in a magazine i produced), and i >> have since been intrigued by each of what i think of as his experiments in >> context (though, as experiments, they often are better at breaking ground >> than at being aesthetic masterpieces) >> >> just a taste here, but interesting text: >> >> <http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200511/trees.asp> > > I decided to try another tack, and tried shooting them at night using my > studio strobe. Here are a couple of different treatments: > showing the canopy: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6169096452/ > just disappearing into the darkness: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6168563119/ > > The whole experiment is here: > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627594004271/ > > I think that the answer really will involve shooting them from an entirely > different angle, though I might be able to do something incorporating people. > If I had some gymnastically inclined folks, I could incorporate the tree > into some sort of human totem pole .... > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
