A sight of trees

Abstract

To even start thinking of photographing landscapes, you need to abandon all the human elements of your everyday life and do some soul searching in nature studding and understand all the patterns and ways so easily overlooked by man. It was late afternoon, I lay down under a tree to gather my thoughts and sort out the day's work. I closed my eyes and when I opened them I saw dead tree branches reaching out to the sun setting in the west. The colours in the sky changed rapidly bringing life to the branches that at first appeared dead. I captured these moments in my mind. To explain the emotion I experienced during these moments will never be captured fully in a photo but I strive to perfect the art of capturing the image I saw and the emotions combined with it. It's very important to me as a landscape photographer not only to photograph the patterns or the designs of nature but to create a scene pleasing to the eye with a definite center of attraction. The ability to sense the changes in nature and to photograph these changes in its springing moment when it's still fresh and unseen by most of the people passing by. When I first started to photograph landscapes and especially trees, I felt a bond between human behaviour and the trees but I could not put my finger on it. Because trees are so bold and overpowering in nature the human looked at it and learned from it without really realizing it. When you start to compare man and a tree you see more than one similarity . Trees most of the time grow upwards reaching out to the sky and clouds. Just like people reaching out to the people around , the known or unknown.