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I took this photo at Sandringham, the trees are massive and so beautiful definitely one of my favourite's for this year.
Have you got a favourite tree photograph?
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Gorgeous colours Cnicht :)
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Gorgeous colours Cnicht :)
Thank you Dovegirl, the trees took my breath away they were so beautiful :)
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I have a favorite tree but I have to walk part of the High Weald Trail again to photograph it. Its a huge chestnut tree in the middle of a plum orchard just a little east of a village called Little Chart on the Greensand Way. One day I will return!
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I've got a favourite tree..........it's the Holly Tree Inn, a few miles down the road! :)
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This beauty is on the north side of the scenic Chess valley, between Chenies and Sarratt in south-west Hertfordshire.
I photographed it during a walk two years ago, and i use it as my desktop picture.
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Wow that's a huge tree Fernman :) trees really do have a beauty of their own.
Youradvocate I hope your take that photo so I can see O0
Sparnel, that's a great tree too ;D
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Here's one I took on my way to work in Billericay, Essex on a very foggy morning.
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I also love trees - taken hundreds of them whilst walking round the parks of London! All the photos are my Flickr page (see below)
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Castlewellan Forest Park:
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Steven, you have lots of trees what's your favourite?
Henry, that's a big tree too lovely colours :)
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I took this photo in Wolfscote Dale in the Peak District
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fernman - love the tracery of the branches against the sky
cnicht - that Essex one is atmospheric
henryb - glorious colours
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Lovely photo Dovegirl, looks a fab place to walk on a sunny day :)
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Here's one I took on my way to work in Billericay, Essex on a very foggy morning.
Fabulous photo which reminds me of two LP / album covers - 'Wind & Wuthering' by Genesis and 'Bare Trees' by Fleetwood Mac.
Both album covers used this iconic type of image - so atmospheric.
It may take me a while to dig one of my tree photos out but by way of a cheat - here is one of my favourite trees :-
http://www.holker.co.uk/the-garden/holker-great-lime/
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Some lovely roots, taken ten days ago at Avebury on a brief break to celebrate my Dad's 80th birthday.
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And I've posted this one here before - the most photogenic of trees, just below The Roaches near Leek in Staffordshire
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ww - those roots are amazing :)
Lovely photo Dovegirl, looks a fab place to walk on a sunny day :)
Thanks Cnicht :)
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Lots of roots there WW I've seen some like that on Dartmoor covered in moss O0
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I too love trees and have hunderds of photos, its impossible to pick favourites, here are a couple of shots from one of our local walks round Studley Royal/Fountains Abbey.
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Taken a year ago on my last ever commute to work.
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On the River Severn in Gloucestershire
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I too love trees and have hunderds of photos, its impossible to pick favourites, here are a couple of shots from one of our local walks round Studley Royal/Fountains Abbey.
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Beautiful colours, that's what I love about trees they hold a certain splendour whatever time of the year :)
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Very wintery trees Page :)
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Fabulous photo which reminds me of two LP / album covers - 'Wind & Wuthering' by Genesis and 'Bare Trees' by Fleetwood Mac.
Both album covers used this iconic type of image - so atmospheric.
It may take me a while to dig one of my tree photos out but by way of a cheat - here is one of my favourite trees :-
http://www.holker.co.uk/the-garden/holker-great-lime/
Hope you can find the photos :)
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Hope you can find the photos :)
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This is a giant Redwood which you suddenly come across on the side of the canal just outside Crickhowell. We were there walking in the Beacons and thought 'he' would be worth seeing. The photo doesn't do justice - he is enormous, so big you can't get the whole tree in the shot.
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This is an interesting shot - it looks like the older tree protecting the younger, but just a chance growth around each other. Taken in Ray Wood on the Castle Howard estate in North Yorkshire
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They do grow huge I have a photo of one somewhere. When I first looked at your 2nd photo I thought exactly the same, an embrace O0
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How about this, I took this one on Dartmoor along time ago :)
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Scot's Pines are a feature that can cause curious thoughts to the walker interested in terrain and those before us, who had to make long distant journeys. They are not an indigenous species in England and Wales and their planting had a particular use. Because of their unique shape and colour they were used as markers for the 'Drover's Ways' that were used to get cattle and sheep out of Wales and down to the London, to feed the growing population.
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The western edge of Nescliffe gives a great view of the Welsh border, recently erected info. boards describe how one of the aristocratic landowners landscaped the hill for picnic parties, but I wonder if the planting of Scot's Pines on such a noticeable location was a legacy of the Drover's route from Anglesea, which started by the cattle being driven over the northern end of the Menai Straights on a Low spring tide. This drive came down over the Clywydian Hills.
This photo is looking directly into the Llynclys gap, the visual break in the Welsh for-hills of the Tanat valley. On our walk this last weekend I became aware of some clusters of SP's that suggested a line of travel passing through Llansilin.
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This is a pretty cool tree, http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=25301.15
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How about this, I took this one on Dartmoor along time ago :)
I think I recognise that avenue of beech trees Cnicht. Was that taken close to Tottiford Reservoir? If not it looks very similar.
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I think I recognise that avenue of beech trees Cnicht. Was that taken close to Tottiford Reservoir? If not it looks very similar.
Yes Dave :). We camped at Betty Cottles and that night apparently some bloke was peeping into the ladies showers :D
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This is a pretty cool tree, http://www.walkingforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=25301.15
That's mahoosive!
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That's mahoosive!
Yep it's a whopper, the first time you see it is a wow moment :)
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Yep it's a whopper, the first time you see it is a wow moment :)
Are you talking about the tree :D ;D
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Yes Dave :) . We camped at Betty Cottles and that night apparently some bloke was peeping into the ladies showers :D
It wasn't me, honest! :D
Yes, I thought it was Tottiford Reservoir. Every time I go there I think how beautiful that avenue is. I think most of these avenues of trees started out as beech hedges, but have been left to grow into large trees.
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It wasn't me, honest! :D
Yes, I thought it was Tottiford Reservoir. Every time I go there I think how beautiful that avenue is. I think most of these avenues of trees started out as beech hedges, but have been left to grow into large trees.
;D they really catch your eye, I've got some other ones from that weekend somewhere I'll have s look
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Are you talking about the tree :D ;D
That too :-[ ;D
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That too :-[ ;D
Me giggles ;D
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Took this on my holidays to Cannes in France last year
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I'm not a science fiction fan (of books) but there is a short story by Ursula K Le Guin called ' The Direction of the Road ' which anyone with an arboreal interest may find amusing.
It is a story written from the viewpoint of a tree ...... I can't say anymore or it will spoil it for you. It is just tongue in cheek (well I think it is) but it may make you pause next time you walk by a tree.
I found the story in a collection of her shorts - called ' The Wind's Twelve Quarters '
A friend of mine is an artist, who many years ago painted an imaginary scene:- there was a standing stone, a tree and me. I didn't pose for the painting but he managed to put me in the scene.
I only have a photo print of the painting and if I can find it I'll try to upload it - so you can see his tree, rather than me.
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I'm not a science fiction fan (of books) but there is a short story by Ursula K Le Guin called ' The Direction of the Road ' which anyone with an arboreal interest may find amusing.
It is a story written from the viewpoint of a tree ...... I can't say anymore or it will spoil it for you. It is just tongue in cheek (well I think it is) but it may make you pause next time you walk by a tree.
I found the story in a collection of her shorts - called ' The Wind's Twelve Quarters '
A friend of mine is an artist, who many years ago painted an imaginary scene:- there was a standing stone, a tree and me. I didn't pose for the painting but he managed to put me in the scene.
I only have a photo print of the painting and if I can find it I'll try to upload it - so you can see his tree, rather than me.
Sounds interesting I'll google it today :)
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I absolutely love trees and enjoy photographing them (even if not very well :-[ )
A few of my favourites...
Fallen trees in Flag Dale, Derby's
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I've always loved the twisty trees in Padley Gorge....
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And the Beech trees in a lovely little wood above Great Longstone....
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This one's the Ridge of Kerridge, near Bollington...
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I've got too many I like to post them all! :D
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They are lovely Tracey my favourite has to be the twistey tree too :)
Put more up would like too see them. I have a few more too O0
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They are lovely Tracey......
Put more up would like too see them.
+1 O0
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One of hundreds I took in the Dolomites :)
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And this one I took in Bath :)
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Those trees in Bath are glorious, Cnicht :)
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Those trees in Bath are glorious, Cnicht :)
It was so big I couldn't get it all in the frame ::)
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One of the trees in Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor
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Dave, I wonder how old that tree is, it reminds of the tree of life in the film Avatar :)
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The Meavy Oak in the village of Meavy, Devon. It is over 900 years old and is said to have been hidden in by King Charles when hiding from Cromwell's men.
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This was Dartmoor too, not far from the reservoir :)
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The Meavy Oak in the village of Meavy, Devon. It is over 900 years old and is said to have been hidden in by King Charles when hiding from Cromwell's men.
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Good place to hide :)
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Dave, I wonder how old that tree is, it reminds of the tree of life in the film Avatar :)
Wistman's Wood is one of the three ancient Dartmoor woodlands that date back to about 7000 BC. The trees are oaks and are about 400 - 500 years old. The soil is very poor and the ground is covered in boulders, so this causes the trees to become stunted. The branches are covered in moss, lichens and ferns. I find it a fascinating place but some people think it is a bit spooky.
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Good place to hide :)
Yes, although King Charles is said to have hidden in trees all over the country so I don't know if the story is true.
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This was Dartmoor too, not far from the reservoir :)
Nice photo.
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Thanks Dave, they are very Dartmoor-ish trees :)
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Yes, although King Charles is said to have hidden in trees all over the country so I don't know if the story is true.
He was a little devil I think >:D
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I find it a fascinating place but some people think it is a bit spooky.
There does seem to be a general (Hammer Horror) acceptance that woods can be spooky. For me they are anything but, and I always feel safe and tranquil especially so the more dense the woodland. I think it must be as a result of watching Robin Hood on TV when younger !They are more of a sanctuary that something to be wary of.
Maybe I'm just lucky in that respect.
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I used to be scared when I was a child all those stories of The Big Bad Wolf ::) But as I grew up I began to see them as beautiful, something to admire :)
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There does seem to be a general (Hammer Horror) acceptance that woods can be spooky. For me they are anything but, and I always feel safe and tranquil especially so the more dense the woodland. I think it must be as a result of watching Robin Hood on TV when younger !They are more of a sanctuary that something to be wary of.
Maybe I'm just lucky in that respect.
Until a few hundred years ago woods were full of animals that would kill and eat you. Very dangerous places. You'd have a very different opinion of them had you been born in 1600.
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Until a few hundred years ago woods were full of animals that would kill and eat you. Very dangerous places. You'd have a very different opinion of them had you been born in 1600.
And they are bringing back the wild cats in Scotland maybe wolves next.
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Until a few hundred years ago woods were full of animals that would kill and eat you.
They still are, they're called Survivalists ;D
And they are bringing back the wild cats in Scotland maybe wolves next.
The wildcats have never left, the main threat to them now is interbreeding with feral domestic cats. There are lots of practical reasons why wolves haven't been introduced, I can't see it happening TBH. Though it might help with the problem of too many deer.
(Oh and hi Donna, don't think I've welcomed you back yet O0 )
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They still are, they're called Survivalists ;D
The wildcats have never left, the main threat to them now is interbreeding with feral domestic cats. There are lots of practical reasons why wolves haven't been introduced, I can't see it happening TBH. Though it might help with the problem of too many deer.
(Oh and hi Donna, don't think I've welcomed you back yet O0 )
Yes that's true about the wild cats. They look like my cat :D
Hello Colin, longtime no see, sounds like your doing well :) thank you for the welcome back :)
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Until a few hundred years ago woods were full of animals that would kill and eat you. Very dangerous places. You'd have a very different opinion of them had you been born in 1600.
my thoughts too!!!
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Apologies for resurrecting this thread, but I thought it would be interesting to compare winter and summer photos of the same tree. Mrs. DD took these photos of an ash tree with me standing under it. The first one was taken last November (in the pouring rain). The second one was taken this month.
The tree is in the Yorkshire Dales. Do any of you Dales folk recognise it? It's not too far from you Peter.
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The coat and hat come off, and the leaves come on. Very good.
We have an interesting looking old oak in a field near us and I have a fancy to take a picture of it once a week for a year at the same time of day: just need to get around to doing it.
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Yes, it would be good to do a time-lapse sequence, but although I enjoy photography I'm certainly no expert and wouldn't know how to start with that.
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Don't apologise for resurrecting the thread Dave - lovely to be reminded of it :) .
Here's one I took almost exactly a year ago
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That's a nice picture WW. I like the sun glinting through the tree.
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Here's another one. This was taken earlier this week near Richmond in North Yorkshire. The fields throughout the Dales are beautiful at this time of year, covered in buttercups.
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One from the quarries above Rhyd Ddu - a tree where no tree should be!
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Amazing, if you planted a tree seed in a wall in your garden it would never grow, but in the wild they seem able to grow anywhere.
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Except Buddleja, you don't have to plant it it will grow in gutters, even you boots if you leave them out for more that a week or so. ???
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Yes, very true. Which reminds me, I have to get up on the roof some time to remove one that has started growing out of the chimney. >:(
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Some really nice photographs here, lovely :)
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One from the quarries above Rhyd Ddu - a tree where no tree should be!
I've seen trees like that in Welsh slate quarries, quite amazing. As was this... I'm not sure if it's a tree grown through the roof, load of bushes, or a load of bushes growing on the roof, but it's definitely not where it should be. (Fingers crossed that I've managed to work out how Google Photo's works now).
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........ (Fingers crossed that I've managed to work out how Google Photo's works now).
Not quite !
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Cannot see it :(
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Perhaps you can see it this time. (Fingers and toes crossed)
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Nope, not yet :o
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Unless its a very well camouflaged grey tree against a grey background ;D