I’ve been missing the “photo challenge” threads we used to have, so I decided it was time for another.
The theme for the month is trees. That can be a single tree, a woodland scene, a close-up of a part of a tree - whatever you want to post. The only rules for posting pictures are:
They must be on the specified theme
They must be your own pictures.
There are no prizes; this is just for fun. If you don’t take photos yourself, or don’t have anything suitable to post, then please join in by “voting” for your favourite picture(s) using the “like” button.
To get us started, this is a picture of an ancient wych elm in the grounds of Beauly Priory, although it looks to me like a Krynoid from an old Dr. Who series (The Seeds of Doom).
Taken with a dated mobile at midnight, no flash just a hand held torch. The tree is a tall fir with a stem about 3m around. The top was too wide for the lens and I was too frozen to hold steady. (EXIF untouched, apparently removed after upload.)
Some older photos, and a stretch since they’re not the “star” of the photos…
Pic 1 - Taken at the Washington National Zoo. This is an Andean bear sitting in one of the trees in their enclosure. About two minutes later, this bear slipped down the tree and got stuck in the tree and did a happy wiggle dance to get out (that I don’t have photos of since I switched to video because it was so funny.
Pic 2 - This was taken in 2011, and was taken after we got a freak snow storm in October. The leaves hadn’t fallen yet, and the weight of the snow caused our tree to split in two Under the branch is one of our cars. Amazingly, we only had a dented roof out of the incident. The biggest memory of this day was our son, who was eight at the time, coming to our room in the other end of the house asking “you have insurance, right?” “Yes, why?” “Oh, because a tree just fell on the car…”