The Individuality of Trees

I’ve always been incredibly interested in trees. I was enamoured with Boababs of Africa & Australia, and the Dragon Blood trees from Socotra when I was younger, and that love quickly expanded to the trees I see where I live. People seem to be generally uninterested in the uniqueness of the trees they see around them in their daily lives. So often individual trees can be easily overlooked in favour of the forest. “you can’t see the forest for the trees” is used when one pays more attention to small details rather than the big picture, but perhaps the trees are worth paying closer attention to.

I chose to photograph close to the bark for 2 shots, as one had incredibly interesting wavy lines running along it, and the other had a bright orange rot that was incredibly captivating. The last shot, though from a distance, showcased that dead & dying trees are still useful & important, even if not to us.

Nature photography is something I’ve enjoyed greatly, and have found a lot of room for creativity in. Nature photography is about capturing the natural world, and what better subject of the natural world than something used for so much by it? Holding nests in their branches & their trunks, feeding & housing the bugs that then feed the woodpeckers, and then feeding fungi when they die, trees are an incredibly important part of every step of the circle of life.

I find it isn’t particularly hard to find interesting subjects to photograph in the natural world. There’s so much to see if you choose to look closely, or even just wait for the right moment. Our lives have become so fast paced & work oriented that maybe we don’t stop to really look at how fascinating the natural world is.