While exploring for a satisfying landscape composition to include this tree, I found myself excluding more and more of the traditional or conventional elements of a landscape image. In time I totally released from listening to my brain telling me how to compose this image and let my feelings rule the image. I finally arrived here letting the tree’s shape and details veil the mountainside.
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2 Comments
To me it looks like one of those trees that chase children through the dark enchanted forests, from movies of my childhood, 'cept for the bright blue sky!
A very neat looking tree, indeed!
Thanks Franks, those sound like some movies. “Moyogi” is a style of training a Bonsai Tree where the trunk and weave back and forth while pretty much growing vertical.
Good to hear from you.