Details of nature

I see beauty in the mess that old tree trunks can create.
At closer inspection there are details that are intriguing, almost man made.


Vivitar 28mm f2.0   @f4.0   1/500sec

High tide tangled some grass around this old trunk. It almost seems that somebody has carefully knotted the straw around the bleached wood, but it is indeed the waves that managed to tangle it.


Industar-61 50mm f2.8 @f4  1/15sec

The insects have been working under the bark of the fallen tree; now the weather has exposed their tunnelling.

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Rainforest trees

In the dense subtropical rainforest the trees are overwhelming; I rarely see the whole tree.
The close proximity of the giants keeps my view focused at the base of their trunks, observing the intricate shape of the roots and texture of the bark.


G-Lumix 14mm f4.5  1/4sec

The light is diffused and the moisture allows for vines, lichens and mosses to grow, sometimes creating abstract paintings on their bark.


G-Lumix 14mm f4.5  1/15sec

And the root system is at times rather bizarre, nothing like I have ever seen in a European forest.


M.Zuiko 9-18mm f4.5  1/15sec

Weathered snow gum

The winter storms on the Australian high country Snowy Mountains create a harsh environment for trees to survive.
Only the hardy evergreen Snow Gums have the ability to adapt; the wind bending their trunks and branches, they often root themselves to a cluster of granite boulders.
A bed of daisies keeps them company.


G-Lumix 14mm f2.5   @f4  1/30sec

Tree flowers

The spring manifests itself best with the flowers in the trees.
The fields are usually bare where I live but the trees can really put on a wild display.


Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2.9   @ f4 1/1000sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2   @ f8 1/350sec


Helios 44-2 58mm f2   @ f5.6 1/1000sec

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Old scars

Bearing the scars of a life subjected to beauty.


Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm F2.9 @f8  1/90sec

Born not to grow free its body shaped to please, now paying the toll.
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