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(I have tried to write sever descriptions for this piece, but they all seemed insufficient to me at this point. Hopefully in the future I will be able to find the adequate words.)Related content
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Thank you Bojan 
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fantastic photo!it's just awesome,the light,the texture..fantastic.
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This picture is brilliant. The way the light is makes the tree look so volumous and wonderful.
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Thank you Nick! 
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the colours and the lightning are perfect
what else to say?
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Beautiful
Nature give us the oportunity of shown us her own beauty but we have to know how to do it, and you know it so well
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Wow Soninha, thank you very much for your kind words
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Great shot.....
the crop its great very nice....
the light its great.....
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this picture is stunning you did an amazing job with this
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Thank you very much Konnar!
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really breath taking lighting. this tree conveys some great character. beautifully captured.
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Thank you very much Ryan
I was like a little girl in the candy store during my short stay, especially when I was walking down the driveway and looked up at this tree to see the sunlight behind it
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..........I don't know what tos ay that others haven't already...amazing
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Golden Lichen fingers, reaching for the sun, their knarly knotted knuckles leave an evil feel for some...
Yet as the sunbeams make their magic in the auroa of the tree
I imagine fairies dancing, all the sprites are running free
Celebrating winter's sunshine, knowing spring is next to come
Deep within each bough and branch the magic has begun...
sometimes pictures do that for me, I see a poem and write it
thank you
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great angle. the light branching out from behind the tree is just beautitful. definitely adds to the vibrance of the the sunlight. so much detail and just a wonderful shot.
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The light in this is really special. Great shot! I think that sometimes we should just let a work of art speak for itself. If you can't think of anything to say, that is definitely the thing to do.
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You're welcome.
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Dunno why I'm looking at this, it's just a tree. Slightly odd-coloured tree even.
Some sun behind the tree as well, probably a few thousand of them on dA. Every
kid with a cam has one. So why am I looking at this again, does the tree have
something extra or should I have dropped the last glass of red wine? Well, there's
something about it.
It must be the eerie silhouette, the snow(?) on the branches with the backlight that
makes it look almost moss-like, as a dead tree getting overcome with moss, yet this
tree doesn't seem to be dying. It's making a stand. Maybe against the thousands
of other dull tree pictures, maybe against winter, maybe against nature. Maybe
it's just standing there, but it does one heck of a good job. The greenish tint to the
picture (I'm guessing this picture has gotten curve treatment) gives it the mysterious
hue of old nature, one of the LotR-fanboys might even cry "ENT". So yes, there's
something to it. And I've written a lot of illogical mess, but I could do worse.
Oh, and Advanced Critique... well, I suspect the cut is to hide the house on the left,
and that's ok, but it would be ok to see the top of the tree I think, unless of course there's
a power or telephone wire there. More height would've added a more towering and possibly
majestic feel to it, but that might not've been intended and there's only so much that
can be fit into a 35mm camera. Great job
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Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write your thoughts and I am happy that you find something interesting about this photo
The greenish colors you see on the trees is actually an abundant amount of lichen that grows on many of the trees in the area.. My camera has been being a bit bad lately and has been underexposing my shots, so I did have to adjust the levels a bit to bring the lighting closer to where it should have been, but then I desatured the photo a bit since I liked it better with just the hint of color, rather then bright outlines..
The little portion on the left side of the tree is, I believe, housing for a water pump... There were powerlines around the tree, and newly constructed houses around, as well as trees behind me so that I could not back up any more, but I think turned out OK dodging as much as I could
There is a minor crop on the image just to straighten the tree out about, but I did not intentially try to crop out the building since it would have made the tree look lopsided
Thank you again for taking your time to comment, I greatly appreciate it!
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I just tried to write my comment in a slightly different way, and I'm happy to
have been given some insight in the process you use.
And yeah, trying to avoid houses, power-lines and stuff all sounds very familiar.
An example is my winterdream entry where there is a silly house ruining the
serenity of nature, but a shallow DOF more or less hides it. Normally I'd use
a lot more DOF in a landscape
Oh and yes, the desaturating you did worked really well. Thumbs up
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I get mixed emotions from this shot... on the one hand i think its kinda scary and errie, on the other it has a "tree of life" feel.
Love the sunrays seeping through, a very nice extra.
Im wondering what that is in the bottom left corner, looks abit like a tombstone...
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Thank you Bob, I am very happy you like this!
I had thought that that bit in the corner looked like a tombstone too and thought it was kinda of neat thinking that.. but in reality it is part of a water shed, lol.. I didn't want to crop the photo to hide it, and couldn't have moved the angle over since there were powerlines and houses..
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Absolutely wonderful...the shimmer of sunlight tracing the many old snow-covered veins of this tree reaching up to the sky is very kickass. I'm glad you kept this color - it's warmth really wouldn't be caught in a B& W scenario.
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Thank you very much Sterling!!
I wish it would have snowed while I was there, but alas, this location was too low to get any.. What looks like snow is actually a very interesting type of lichen (maybe Oakmoss lichen, but I am not sure)... in the winter a lot of the trees in Oregon become covered with lichen and moss, especially White Oaks..
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i love it ... the way the light gives you the hint of softness (im guessing off the moss ) great looking shot, perfection once again
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wow! amazing shot! the rays at the bottom look beautiful
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excellent capture! I don't think words are needed to describe the feeling.... the picture speaks for itself. thanks for sharing!
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Thank you very much! I am really happy to know that my words are not needed here..
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This is excellent, the exposure is perfect. Where was this taken? Was this shot on a digital camera?
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Thank you very much Shane!
I took this photo at my dad's house (end of his driveway!) in Oregon, with my Nikon D100...
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Very nice! The exposure must have been just spot on, the exposure lattitude is great, there's still some color in the sky while the foreground is exposed properly. Was there alot of post-work done on this? Some of the lower branches look almost like a painting.
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I have actually been having a bit of problems with my cam (sending it in tomorrow 
The painting look may be from the moss.. there are actually 2 types of moss that are growing on the tree.. one a soft, dark green, and another almost seafoam green that is kind of leafy, which is the one on most of the tree
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