Tree trunks and bare branches

It was overcast, cold and threatening rain when I went for my walk today so I decided to make use of the conditions and
the tall birch trees that have grown straight up in an abandoned coppice. They were taken with an SMC Pentax-A 24 -50 zoom
at 24mm and f11 on a K1. Believe it or not, they are in colour (!) but conditions would have you think otherwise.

Heaven knows what caused these two to grow with identical bends and twists?



These views looking straight up have a really 'organic' feel to them



In most groups of trees the topmost branches just tangle together. It is only in one or two cases that they have made
a sort of 'hole' for themselves at the top of the canopy. When they do, the results are quite dramatic.



Comments are welcome, as always.

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They work very well for me.

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Peter



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Great work and very artistic patterns on that last shot.

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Peter

I like them all. I wouldn't have thought they were in colour unless you'd let us know. So interesting, great images.

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#2 and #3 are superb, #2 just edges it for me for the perspective

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Chris

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Really like number 3, a great perspective. I find number 2 slightly unsettling with the main trunk coming downwards from the top centre but when I rotate the image 180 degrees find it totally different and really like it, just how my mind works.

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Paul

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No.1 doesn't quite work for me, I think it's because my brain wants to see the two main trunks coming from the 2 bottom corners

No.2 and 3 are spot on - I get what Paul is saying about 2, but I like it just as it is - Good job all our minds aren't the same

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LennyBloke

Oh my. Thank you for all those nice comments, especially for results from such a grey, uninspiring day.
In comparison with the other two, I agree about the first one not being in the same class but it was taken because of the almost identical shapes of the wiggles in their trunks, particularly in the upper parts. Now that I examine the other two, I see that there is a similar kink towards the tops of a lot of these trunks. Am I seeing things or is there maybe something more going on here?

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Really like no.2 and 3. They look like the veins in a lung which I suppose they are, tree's that is, they're the lungs of the earth

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Yep. Need to be protected too.

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Tell HS2 about it. They have utterly razed acres and acres of Warwickshire, often for access roads and materials dumps, neither of which required trees to have been bulldozed.

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Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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The last for me, all good but the third is quite "balanced".

Best regards

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