MSA O/N April 2022: Trees

[macfred]

The theme for the month of April is supposed to be trees.

I’m not even sure if we've covered this topic before for the MSA - at first glance I could not find anything.

I love photographs of trees and have tried my hand at it many times. However, I have to admit that I'm never really satisfied with my results ... I'm looking forward to seeing your photos and collecting inspiration.

Please show me winter trees, black & white trees, colorful trees, reflection of trees, shadows of trees, old trees, young trees, survivor trees, desert trees, close-up trees ... Have fun !

Submissions can be OLD prints/negatives that were taken earlier in the year (or prior)
Submissions can be NEW prints/negatives taken during this month

For the updated MSA guidelines :
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...5-07-2019-07-and-2021-12.126124/#post-1667700

@matt : If I forgot something to say, please help me out !


I can't resist to add three of my own attempts ...

Rolleiflex 3.5F - Planar - Acros II

Rolleiflex 3.5F -- Planar - XP2 Super

Konica III - Hexanon 48mm f/2 - TMY400

 

[Bertus]

That is a very nice topic, thank you and I would like to participate again. btw: Very nice examples of the subject!

 

[mooseontheloose]

That is a very nice topic, thank you and I would like to participate again. btw: Very nice examples of the subject!

Bertus! It's so nice to see you back here - I always look forward to your photographs.

Macfred - Great subject for the assignment - I think I have in my archives that I can post, since my scanner is not working (nor has been for some time).

 

[peter k.]

... I love photographs of trees and have tried my hand at it many times. However, I have to admit that I'm never really satisfied with my results ...

Ya got to be kidding... your second shot is a winner ... good thing you can't enter it, although you just did.


Ok ... its going to take something to match or better that one, so ya got the juices rolling.

 

[MattKing]

I have too many to choose from.
The only thing I would add is that the images can, of course, also be from slides.
Like this oft shared old one:

 

[macfred]

That is a very nice topic, thank you and I would like to participate again. btw: Very nice examples of the subject!

You're welcome Bertus !

Ya got to be kidding... your second shot is a winner ... good thing you can't enter it, although you just did.
Ok ... its going to take something to match or better that one, so ya got the juices rolling.

Thank you - glad you like it!

... Macfred - Great subject for the assignment - I think I have in my archives that I can post, since my scanner is not working (nor has been for some time).

I really would like to see you participating again, Rachelle!

I have too many to choose from.
The only thing I would add is that the images can, of course, also be from slides.
Like this oft shared old one:
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Let' em come Matt! And of course - slides are welcome.

 

[Bertus]

Working in the Willow forest. (old) Linhof 4X5 and trypod 1/15 F 4. Low light. Ilford FP4 dill B on Ilford MG paper 10X12". In my neighbourhood Ridderkerk.

 

[russljames]

Thanks for choosing this great theme, macfred!

Trees have become my most photographed subject over the years. Specifically, tree bark is what I use to test lenses for sharpness and contrast. And the fixed 50mm f2 Solinar lens on my Ansco Super Regent passes the test for me. This is old, from last November, taken with Ilford FP4 and developed in HC110.(B).

 

[logan2z]

Great theme, I love trees! Here's a couple of submissions...

 

[macfred]

@Bertus : Love this very much!

@russljames : Fantastic detail on the bark.

@logan2z : Excellent submissions - like them both.

 

[markjwyatt]

Here some OLD submissions:

In 2020, we had a big fire come through. I got some sad, but interesting shots in the area. Within a month or so, everything (except some of the trees) started recovering. These were taken with an Exakta VX w/ CZJ 58mm f2 Biotar on Fomapan 200, HC110


Tree on burnt hill by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr


Firescape by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

Not all my tree pics are of burnt trees! This was taken with a Fujica ST 705w w/ Zeiss Ultron 50mm f1.8 on ADOX CHS 100 II dev in ADOX FX-39 II


slant by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

A Spooky Tree; Contax iia; Voigtlander SC Skopar 21mm f4; Ilford FP4+ (The Darkroom- DDX).


Wyandotte Cemetery by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

Finally (I have tons of tree pictures, but do not want to overwhelm), this has the same specs as above (camera, lens, film, etc.), but taken in a different place and time (may have been the same overall trip.


stand by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

 

[mooseontheloose]

So my first point of call is from my gallery submissions. First set is from my last trip to Cambodia (hard to believe that was 10 years ago). All shot on infrared film, but printed on different papers and/or toned, accounting for the different effects:

Stranglehold: Ta Som Temple, Efke IR (aura) film

Wat Remains: Ta Prohm, HIE film, bleached back and sepia toned to get rid of grey cast from extremely fogged film, on regular RC paper

Ta Prohm 1: Also HIE, also bleached and sepia toned for the same reasons as above, printed on Ilford Art 300, giving more "bite" to the texture of the stones.

 

[mooseontheloose]

Another set from the archives, random collection:

Keukenhof gardens in April, HIE film:

The birds: bare trees in winter in Nancy (France) in one of my favourite parks. Shot with my Holga and lith printed:

Fall colours, Mt. Fuji, colour slide film:

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[macfred]

@markjwyatt : Beautiful - I especially like #3 and #4 !!

@mooseontheloose : Wow !! Amazing work - glad to have you here.

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

Hello. My congratulations for all the pics you posted, I like them a lot! I'm a rookie here, anyway I would like to show a couple pics (new submissions):

Mirror (Hasselblad 500 C/M - Ilford FP4 Plus - Kodak HC-110 dil. 8+492)


Vertical/Horizontal (Rollei 35 S - Ilford FP4 Plus - HC-110 dil. 3+497)
image host site

Cheers, Alfredo Doricchi

 

[macfred]

@Alfredo Doricchi : Alfredo, you're welcome. Thank you for your excellent submissions to our Monthly Shooting Assignment with the theme Trees !

 

[russljames]

(Old) December, 2019- A Live Oak tree stretches its branches into Oxbow Lake at Palmetto State Park near Gonzales, Texas. Taken with a Leica IIIb, 28mm f5.6 Summaron, and Kentmere 100.

 

[baachitraka]

Working in the Willow forest. (old) Linhof 4X5 and trypod 1/15 F 4. Low light. Ilford FP4 dill B on Ilford MG paper 10X12". In my neighbourhood Ridderkerk.

Any reason why so many trees were trimed (forest fires) etc.,?

 

[macfred]

Any reason why so many trees were trimed (forest fires) etc.,?

These are willows that are pruned for landscape maintenance. The trunks are shortened as a young tree at a height of about 1 to 3 meters and their branches are subsequently pruned regularly.
In Europe these willows are called 'pollard willows' / Kopfweide.

On the cut surface, the tree treated in this way sprouts new shoots in large numbers. These canes can be easily reached and cut for economic use (basket weaving).

 

[macfred]

(Old) December, 2019- A Live Oak tree stretches its branches into Oxbow Lake at Palmetto State Park near Gonzales, Texas. Taken with a Leica IIIb, 28mm f5.6 Summaron, and Kentmere 100.

Beautiful !

 

[macfred]

Two from my archives - out of competition ...

A veteran on crutches

Rolleiflex 3.5F - Planar - Neonpan 400CN

A maple tree - captured in Tyrol / Austria - Karwendel mountain range

FUJI GA645Wi - EBC Fujinon 45mm f/4 - Portra 160

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

OLD:

Ficus, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

5x7 Fomapan 200, PMK Pyro (IIRC)
Bergger COT320, Palladium, Potassium Oxalate developer.

 

[gone]

New, just 2 days ago. It's difficult to find anything called winter trees here in Tucson, Arizona. Pentax MV, 50 2 lens, Tri-X in F76, straight scan right now, unknown type of tree.

 

[Sirius Glass]

New, just 2 days ago. It's difficult to find anything called winter trees here in Tucson, Arizona. Pentax MV, 50 2 lens, Tri-X in F76, straight scan right now, unknown type of tree.

Eucalyptus, they do not shed leaves in the fall.

 

[macfred]

@TheFlyingCamera @momus

Thank you for participating here!