lone tree

I’ve driven or cycled, or even walked, this road hundreds of times.  And each time I’ve passed this tree.  And each time I’ve thought to myself that I must take a photograph of it.

Well, a few weeks ago I did just that.

But why this time?

Well, it was the way the light was hitting the tree from the side, illuminating its silvery grey bark and casting the rest of the tree into light shadow.  Then the clouds seemed to be just right – almost framing the tree.  I hadn’t driven there deliberately to take this picture.  I’d gone to fly my drone, just that this time I just had to stop and at last get the image of the tree I’d always wanted.

I could have zoomed in tighter, gone black and white and upped the “clarity” of the image to highlight the tree’s struggles against the wind over what must be years.  But I liked the colour image too much to do that.  

And I like the tree too much too.

Fujifilm X-T20, Fujinon 10-24mm f4.0 at 24mm
1/110th of a second at f8, ISO 100
tripod, self-timed release