Well-done shot, and I like the way you worked the dawn light into it. What's missing is anything to provide scale--it could be 10 inches in diameter from the pic. Maybe your Italian friend would be willing to pose at its base.
Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 1:35 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > Lovely shot, Paul > > I've read about that tree or saw something fairly recently on tv? one or > t'other > > ann > > > > > On 10/11/2016 12:20 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >> This Rochester Hills, Michigan tree is said to be the largest Bebb Oak in >> the United States. It measures about ten feet in diameter at its base, and >> one of its weighty limbs rests on the ground. It >> is estimated to be at least 250 years old, although that has never been >> determined for certain, because common testing means might injure it. >> Sometimes we’re so caught up in things, it’s hard to see the trees for the >> forest. I must have driven by this massive tree dozens of times since I >> arrived in Michigan and never noticed it. I only discovered it after a lady >> friend, who arrived here from Italy just a dozen years ago or so, pointed it >> out to me and asked if I would photograph it for her. I finally did so this >> morning, just before sunrise. It’s on a busy street, so my angles were >> limited. I cloned out a couple of street signs and a bit of pavement. The >> tree predates them by hundreds of years, so I figured its entitled to a >> clean environment. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18297169&size=lg > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
