Bleak

Gorgeous shot Deb, love the contrasts and the texture in the rocks. The tree looks very lonely.

solitude comes to my mind when I look at this. great mood shot

Just love it Deb…Such a feeling of desolation to these images of yours..But I just love them…

what a great study…there would be some great quotes to accompany such a powerful image…seems like it has a lot to say :)

I’m happy with ‘bleak’. And the picture is great. Lone tree….. lovely.

Stunning work! Great composition!

I really like this. Nice tree.

Lovely work Deborah, hope yo are well !!

Love the tone and treatment, wonderful capture

Bleak but interesting! Like a snapshot from a bad dream! I mean that in a complimentary way!! your work is always fantastic! Having trouble saying what I mean today!

AWESOME! Love your Black and Whites

Majestic. Almost seems like the tree is sinking down into the gully. Beautiful work Deborah.

its bleak but it does seem like the tree is radiating light, awfy good

Solemn and well done

Great description and great picture.

great framing !!! love the stand alone tree

I just love the feel you have reated here Deborah with the black and white. It is very beautiful!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments – I am sorry I cannot reply to each and everyone but reality beckons and I am just off to do the school run :0)
Thanks again.

Awesome image Deb..love you treatment!

has a great feel to it , excellent image

a well known tree and you’ve managed to capture it in your own way, moving to the side adds the gritty rocks which add to the bleak feeling. ( I find the burnt in top corners a bit heavy ) – good work Deborah

Very striking image Deborah,beautiful tones and textures.

Yes it is…....................but very earthy too. I like the imposing foreground too. Makes you feel small and the tree seem much bigger.

And I think the burnt in corners are spot on!

I expect to see nothing but excellent photographs from you Deborah.

You always deliver.

Love the solitude of the image and the treatment! beautiful in it’s Bleakness….

This is really great. Wonderful job!

Title says it all really, great shot I love the framing with the hills. and the treatment works really well.

Great strong shot… the composition of this is great with the stark silhouette of the tree framed between the 2 sloping sides.. I like how your vignetting mirrors these slope.. excellent B+W work as ever with some great contrasts and detail in the foreground. Excellent.

This is fantastic work as ALWAYS!!...you never fail to deliver…...And you know I LOVE your b&w work!!!Hope all is well with you…....have missed ya!!!! HUGS xoxoxoxox

Wonderful image Deb!! I think the title fits it rather well. Lovely treatment and the framing is spot on.

Such emotion conveyed in this capture -superb

What an AWESOME image, love the POV and it’s sooo powerful in B&W

beautiful work~

Bleak yet beautiful.

Stnning and considering the landscape I would call it brave tree for growing there in the first place.

hi Deborah a very gritty feel to this image makes this such a strong picture we know it well I would probably go a long with daves comments about the sky ,
Sycamore gap springs to mind if you need a name or is that a bit to abvious?

Love lone-tree images – wonderful light, toning and foreground detail, love how the tree is framed by the curved horizon and the subtle vignetted corners above it!

Beautiful! Great find and capture! It’s almost like the tree has hidden in the vally to allow it to grow! -Love it

It’s the tree from the movie Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves, I think – I was there about a fortnight ago – very cool!

woah Deb, this is wicked

amazingly beautiful

Great photo!

Bleak works as a title. Great b&W pp Deb

bleak but brilliant

Love this. Minimalism at its best.

Fantastic capture! Excellent tone and perspective, well done my friend!

So rich in its textures and tones. Love the detail from the front of the image all the way through to the back. So evocative…

Mouthwatering quality, as usual. Gorgeous B&W, Deb.

Or a symbol of hope in a devastating land. Gorgeous work as always Deborah.

That should be ‘devastated’ :)

Excellent composition, love the light , processing and texture of the rocks, beautiful work Deb!

Nice exposure, deborah!
The cloud detail is beautiful and nicely frames the monument…..

Good art. Maybe ‘Bleak’ would be a good title? I love what you did with the stony landscape on the foreground. The texturing is just amazing. So rich. The angle is perfect and makes a hero of the tree. Lonely, but content with itself. A work with great tranquillity in it.

This looks like a working goal to me.. Very well done Deborah..

Bleak it is… This is gorgeous. Love the tones, textures, and especially the feel to it. Magical, as always.

It is very bleak…I like that the hill fades to black.

I think you nailed the title Deb… I mean I can’t really see this being called “Sunshine” or Happy Days” or something similar (insert cheeky grin here) I love the curvature of the hills… its like they are protecting this lone survivor who is teetering on the edge of extinction.

bleak? just about right – excellent image

Beautiful and poignant!

I just love your perspective here Deb…it really isolates the tree more…the tones of course are just perfect….as is the lighting….perfectly balanced throughout….Yuor magic really shines through here Deb….not many could have made this shot what it is…..BRAVO

Love your Black and Whites

What a find, beautiful work Deborah. Love the simplicity and the B&W as always is brilliant.

I really love the contrast in your images Deb, this one a perfect example. It’s something I would love to master…you just always turn a great image into something magical with the strength in the tones…wonderful image!

Superb piece Deborah, love a minimal world with so much texture, and you are the master at it… great shot for me!

Superb piece Deborah, love a minimal world with so much texture, and you are the master at it… great shot for me!

Stunning (as always!) Deb – love how the foreground seems to play tricks with your eyes – I swear I can make out fine threads of a root system. Masterful!

Stunning (as always!) Deb – love how the foreground seems to play tricks with your eyes – I swear I can make out fine threads of a root system. Masterful!

great composition and mood

Beautiful image Deborah… The title is perfect

Okay, I eventually found this within a fortnight! It’s the scale that intrigues me on this Deb. One minute the tree seems to dominate the scene, the next it seems to blend back against those lovely shaped diagonal rocks.

You call it Bleak, I see Hope. Hope that life springs from adversity. It’s an interesting thing to do. Look at an image and say the first word that comes into your head. You would have nearly a different answer for each coment.

Really good work well done

New and innovative art in this modern age, that an artist could only hope to be able to create.

I don’t get the title – What’s bleak about the miracle of a tree growing on the surface of the moon? :) Really wonderful treatment and the vignette at the top frames & balances the image, ages it and counters the hillside perfectly…some serious multi-tasking, wow…

Bleak appears pretty accurate for a title to this one. Like the white in the rocks. Makes them look glassy and hard. Like it!

Wow this is beautiful, love the framing too.

Perfect, great work the vignette works well, well done

It is a beautiful dramatic image and a fav!

Very nice capture… You’re b&w shots are beautiful!

I look and I learn.. from your fantastic captures!

awesome. fav…

What a vunderful compotion. I love your black and white art. They are so emotinal and beautiful.

Fab

Excellent.

lovely lonely tree

Exelent B/W image great light and mood
joe