Twisted by photosynthesis
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The image I posted yesterday seems to have gotten a mixed response, which I can understand, as it stretched the limit of what some would classify as photography. Maybe I should have posted it in the Photoshop Gallery instead, but I thought it was legitimate to post it in the Photography Gallery since it contained only digitally manipulated photographic elements & no hand drawn elements. Anyway, I'm glad some of you found it interesting - it did involve a lot of work & was fun to create.
This is a photo of the top of a tree that was roughly ten feet high. I was struck by the shredded, twisted shape where this tree had been severed from it's upper trunk & wondered how this had happened. Rotted & just collapsed? Hit by another falling tree? Snapped in two by a giant?
When my wife saw this on my monitor from a distance a few minutes ago, she momentarily thought she was looking at a horse's head...
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Comments (12)
oiram
cool shot.
KarmaSong
Very gracious and intriguing at the same time: a most creative capture and photo postwork! Superb work !
Cyve
GReat capture!!!
Faemike55
Very cool capture I wonder what caused it to twist like that
UVDan
Bigfoot...they snap trees. Great shot!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
I had a similar response to my digital paintings. So I just deleted them, and post them to flickr and the site where they are for sale. I think there are a lot of "Wasted" genre for photographers, and there is no arachnid area. Plus no birds genre. But hey, who are we to reason why? Anyway enough of this frivolous rambling. On to the picture. I think your treatment serves to bring out the details, if it were straight out of the camera, I don't think it'd have the same impact. Just my ten cents in your corned Claude.
MrsRatbag
Well seen; the DOF helps bring the fascinating details forward, and the postwork seems to add some magic to the whole. How does this happen? Time is a great artist, and nature leaves a lot of subjects to work on!
dochtersions
Indeed a horse head ;-). I just love such figures which we can see in nature. A lovely capture it is too.
auntietk
Full view is amazing. I love all the detail, and the dof is just right.
netot
Well, I see a torso with no head or arms. Oh, poor tortured soul! You have a great image here, textures and DOF are excellent and BG's green makes a great contrast with the subject´s gray and brown. Death at FG lif at BG. Vey interesting.
moochagoo
Very interesting dead tree
danapommet
I like the twisted lines and it's current condition. I'm going with 'a giant did it' option!