Old Limbs

Neighbors and good friends Larry Hiday, Peter Bascetta, and I got away for a few hours to hike and photograph in the gorge last week. The tangled limbs of this Big-leaf Maple caught my eye. I'm thinking of tossing this into the Landscape Gallery, but it's a bit of departure from my normal fare and I thought I'd see what you all think first.

For sport, here's a photo Larry took of me setting up for this shot.

And one more, with the requisite NPN cap logo.

I read the title and was thinking about my arms and legs ;)

I love the composition John, great colors. I might have burned the background a hair, bit that is just a nit. Nice work

This is a departure from the grand vistas that we're used to seeing from you but I like it. The highlights are well handled and it isn't too busy which IMO is often the Achilles Heal of these types of images.

Nicely composed. I like it as is. The bright background makes the 'trunks' stick out like they need to be. :)

Great image, John. Yes, different than your "usual" masterpieces, but of equal caliber for composition. A great PNW intimate forest scene. I'd say, "Go for it!" with respect to a post in Landscape Gallery.

Being a sucker for a gorgeous tree myself I really like this! My only nit is it's a bit over sharpened. It has a bit of that crispy look of going a bit past perfect with the sharpening slider. Please know this is a small nit and I mention it out of my own past struggles with the "perfect web sharpening" circle of misery...!

Very nice light and well composed John. Reminds me of a Japanese Garden. Definitely a keeper!