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The Setting

Posted by Adiemus (Christchurch, New Zealand) on 26 February 2007 in Cityscape & Urban.

The sad Scout building had echoed to the sound of kids... now the music of the trees and birds and wind whistles by.

Hi guys!
This year I'll be putting up fewer shots, but hopefully improving the quality at the same time. Sort of a 'best of' if you like.
This community is terrific in so many ways - I love it even if I don't often comment. The people on here make it a great place to be.
I'm also writing a health-related blog - if you're interested, hop on over to http://healthskills.wordpress.com/
and make yourself known!

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Comments (11)

M.E. from Encino, United States

how poetic and creative!

26 Feb 2007 5:33am

Manuela Photography from Hainburg (near Frankfurt/Main), Germany

The angle and the majestic tree make the strenght of this shot! Very creative!

26 Feb 2007 8:47am

Still from Valence, France

Wow! The old tree catch my eyes. Just superb!

26 Feb 2007 9:07pm

@Still: Thank you Still, the stand of trees must be about 80 or 90 years old, but are slowly, one by one, being toppled because of great cracks in the branches. The trunks of some are nearly 2m in diameter. Make for great firewood... still I don't like seeing trees felled.

badala from Leiria, Portugal

The B&W works pretty well.
Really good shot.

26 Feb 2007 9:17pm

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Love the perspective - creative! Nice b/w with great tones! Good job!

26 Feb 2007 10:12pm

Cetinsi from Paris, France

Welcome to te U.F.O !

26 Feb 2007 10:44pm

Daroru from Osaka, Japan

Great angle to take the shot. Very well composed with the tree.

26 Feb 2007 10:59pm

Michael Zhang from New York City, United States

Interesting place - the graffiti is very cool. The tones from the b/w conversion are smooth. Great work!

26 Feb 2007 11:21pm

@Michael Zhang: thanks Michael, I did a bit of dodging and burning to bring up the bits on the tree that looked a little flat, was quite a lot of work!! I was quite pleased in the end. Do you think I should have kept the yellow highlight on the graffiti?

Amit from Santa Clara, CA, United States

Beautiful image, i guess it will look much beautiful in color version

27 Feb 2007 12:23am

Yvon from Meerkerk, Netherlands

I think this is beautiful complete b&w, I don't think a yellow highlight in the graffiti would add. This way the tree is your main focus and he should be being this old.

27 Feb 2007 2:30pm

@Yvon: Thanks for your thoughts - I thought so too, I thought the yellow would distract from the actual setting which was the focus for this shot. Almost as if humanity was dwarfed by the natural world.

Untitled from Kyoto, Japan

Very cool shot. Nice...

28 Feb 2007 8:09am

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