An Old, Lonely, Dead Tree

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written 4/6/07 8:30 PM, published 4/6/07 8:30 PM

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About one mile west of the Bliss exit, on I-84 (in Idaho), there is an old, lonely, dead tree. I pass it every time I drive to Boise; it's on the north side of the highway.

I don't know when I first noticed the tree, but at some point I started thinking, "That's an interesting tree. I should stop and take some pics." Unfortunately, I always found an excuse to NOT stop.

Too busy, wrong light, too much traffic, wrong weather, etc.

The last trip I made, I stopped.

Although I like some of the photos (there are more in my images), none of them turned out like I had envisioned. The photos I took just aren't quite right. Any suggestions?

Lonely Tree
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msjudi
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4/6/07 11:00 PM

love "lonely Tree" and thumb.. awesome..

- Smile ; )

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MRQUACKERS
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4/7/07 12:06 AM

Looks like an interesting tree, on 'lonely tree' maybe crop the foreground in half and the same distance on the left? Perhaps a different angle?

- A quack with an camera

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karena214
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4/7/07 3:49 AM

very nice pictures, I like the thumb too!

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Sopris
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4/7/07 4:56 AM

It is an intriguing tree! The thumb is spectacular!

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Lidljo
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4/7/07 5:40 AM

I like the colors in the thumbnail and I like lonely tree, but you are right that something is not quit right. I like MRQUACKERS idea about cropping. I also wondered if color or more light might help.

- Flowers are happiness...

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Penny
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4/7/07 6:20 AM

I love the first shot! It give you the all alone feeling. B&W was a great choice!

- Smile

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cmcnaught
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4/7/07 6:38 AM

Mr. Quackers, Here's your crop. I think it might be a little better. Lonely Tree Cropped

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jess
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4/7/07 7:53 AM

Well I love the thumb! But I prefer the original tree shot, the cropped one makes the tree look a lot smaller and surroundings not as great and wast....Non the less a great shot!

- "north is that way"

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fuzzy1
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4/7/07 9:18 AM

I like the original lonely tree shot, but as others have indicated, cropping off some of the bottom of the shot would help, and it's good as cmcmaught posed his cropped version. But I think what I would try, in addition to cropping off some of the bottom foreground, is to add some sky at the top. (maybe use a wider angle lens) This will reduce the size of the tree in the image, but the open-ness of the sky will add to the sense of the solitary-ness of the tree in silhouette against the vast expanse of sky.

- f8 and be there...

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Sadie
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4/7/07 7:06 PM

Beautiful thumb! I like lonely tree uncropped and cropped---either way looks fine. Nice job. And by the way, it's not a dead tree; you must only go to Boise when the tree is dormant. Lonely tree detail shot clearly shows the tree has lots of life left in it.

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cmcnaught
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4/7/07 9:30 PM

Sadie, "Old, Lonely, Dead Tree" just sounded more dramatic than "Old, Lonely, Dormant Tree"

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