Ponderosa Glow

"Ponderosa Glow". This is my favorite ponderosa tree in the world! I live on the east side of Oregon's Cascade range and Ponderosas are everywhere, so I've seen a lot of them. I wanted to capture the grandeur of this stately old Ponderosa and I think I was mostly successful. This is a huge specimen, one of the biggest I've ever seen and I didn't quite convey that with my capture but as I tried to tuck my 4x5 closer to the trunk of this tree, I started to lose depth of field, so I was forced to compromise a little bit. The glow at the top of the tree was something of an after thought but in my opinion it really helps the image.