Wonderful work,

Some fascinating capture here Harry, they are so wild

I wonder if those roots will eventaully cause damage to the sidewalk? Interesting capture. Aloha

Three excellent shots. I saw similar roots in Spain. I think they were from rubber trees.

Yes, they do look like Ficus. But we don't have trees that like heat here!! Most interesting photos, Harry.

What great character roots these trees have. They remind me of the fig trees in Australia. They look to be avoiding going under the pathway which makes them very wise trees. Super captures.

Nice shots of some wild roots of what I believe is a member of the Ficus family also.

Wonderful captures of the plentiful roots meandering all over the place, Harry; in the second shot the tree seems to be splitting into two trunks! Beautiful find and excellent shots!

real good shots

It looks a bit like a Banyan, but of course lacks the tentacles that descend from the branches into the ground. Perhaps a similar family though.

like such captures !! don't know this trees but looks really good !!

Now! THAT is a root system! Impressive, but I cannot help with a name for the tree! Sorry.. Great shot.. Rob

These are sooooooooooooooo cool!!! Wow!

you find the coolest things to photograph, very inspiring!

Almost like alien creatures and it amazes me that those powerful roots have not cracked the concrete sidewalks. I go along with Ficus. They can be very invasive.

more catch-up (more each time I come back here)...I was struck by these when they went up because you captured them against a very stark background, allowing the root systems to really stand out. I realize you didn't 'create' the backgrounds, they were already there; but your choice of angle, the light you allowed into the shot, and your crops/choice---ie, of how much of the wall to allow in each shot---all make the trees stand out in powerful relief against their largely monolithic backgrounds. Of course, I shouldn't say monolithic, since the backgrounds are characterful, with the play of bricks and the patterns of sand & leaves in 1 & 2. The trees themselves are beauties, and here you give us the bottom portions, as they intimate something quite massive "to come"...I've been to the southeast, and seen trees like these, but I've never, ever seen them in Chicago! So for me, they're a treat. Your treatment & sparseness give them the proper background for their naked bark & highly articulate roots. And yet the smattering of background, esp in 2 & 3, show us snippets of your unique city, with vistas so uncommon to cities in the north. Beautiful & even bleak, but very, very rich. It's wonderful, you know, how you stop to capture everything, and never give a subject you shoot short shrift. That's what photography's about. And this is yet another example. (And you have 4 cameras! 4! I guess a good photographer has more than one, to allow choice according to the subject. I know, of course, that some older cameras sit on the shelf once they're superseded...but you have to care a lot about the art to have gotten more than one or two. I hope to reach that point one day. And btw, Harry, thank you so much for your wholly engaged & caring comments each & everytime, and for all you see and all you communicate, both in my gallery and in others as well. They mean a great deal to me, and you still remain one of our most committed commenters. I never take that for granted.)