Beautifully Old

Wow! Amazing!

Superb Image..a wonderful addition to your PF…congrats

Great capture!

Brilliant shot – what an amazing old tree!

I agree with what you said. Great perspective! :) Love it.

Oh! my God a great hommage to her majesty the tree ,fantastic Deborah

What a wonderful photograph

Wonderful ,, the guy just balances the composition,,,, excellent !!!

Mmm… beautiful. wonderful treatment. hard to tell where tree stops and the earth begins. love your descriptions.

Superb feeling of strength and size-great shot///////////

Lovely photo, love the sense of scale. What a whopping tree!

nice shot

This is fabulous Deb
The funny thing about the image for me is it kind of looks like you are in a deep hole shooting up.
I love it. Amazing job

Great shot of a wonderful tree, it’s perfect for me :)

Thanks everyone for your lovely comments – it’s funny what you say Jeff as i know i was down below but i don’t remember it being that low – mmm probably just the way i handle my camera – lol!!!

fabulous, trees have so much character , here in perthshire it is
know as the big tree country as there are many large specimens
of really old trees, always reminds me of the “ents” in Lord Of The Rings.

that is a huge tree, and the man is so small! awesome shot lady!

Gorgeous picture!

wow totaly outstanding , great shot

Excellent angle – The scale is immense and it looks like you’re underground

Wicked shot

Wow – I have NEVER seen any trees like that around here debs – where did you take that?

omg I SO love tree’s!! this is a great shot Deb – i love the person in the shot it gives it great perspective, and the angle add’s extra interest – well done you!!

I always enjoy reading your thoughts around a picture. You have such a pleasant way of telling about your line of thought. You really did a lot of justice to this beautiful old and wise tree. It is a facinating play with light and shadow again. I love the transparancy and subtle lining in the background. Yes, they make us look small. But they make us look inpatient too. This gentle giant took ages to become what he wanted to become; people come from school and think they know everything. Great job again!

Excellent Deborah! Love your style

A wonderful image. You have captured it perfectly!!

This is a real beauty Deborah and the person gives it real scale!

Wonderful shot. Love it.

Incredible, this is just magic. Love the tones and the perspective. You have definately captured it’s size. Awesome work.

Beautiful….......what an amazing tree.

wonderful pic

Excellent work! Well done!

Gorgeous work Deborah!!!

The scale and dimension is fantastic.
Wonderful work!

This is such a grand shot Deb.Apart from the photo of the tree, which you have done proud, it’s huge size is so beautifully acknowledged by someone standing there at the foot. I have an immense fondness for old trees and In the Waipoua Kauri Forest in the North Island of New Zealand you will find Tane Mahuta (Lord of the Forest).This is New Zealand’s largest known living kauri tree It has a 13m girth and stands 52 m tall. According to Maori mythology Tane is the son of Ranginui the sky father and Papatuanuku the earth mother. All living creatures of the forest are regarded as Tane’s children.
You can almost feel Tane Mahuta’s strength and ancient presence, it’s awesome size makes people look like dwarfs. Thanks for adding this to your portfolio….......dare I say it?.......”love it”

Wow, sensational image Deb…everything about this is a joy to look at, well done!

Wow, powerful statement to accompany this powerful image. Thanks for sharing.

beautiful, powerful image

Lovely work and that tree is huge. A winner!!!!

This is just gorgeous… and the figure at the bottom lends perspective as to how immense this tree really is. Superb!

A wonderful image Deborah, lovely sense of scale and age.

I totally agree with you deb – i can’t even find words for this image…

gorgeous

What a huge tree!!! Another beautiful image, Deborah. Perfect.

It’s all been said above, Deborah. Wonderful ‘classic’ image of a grand old tree. Love the perspective and description. You do treat your subjects with consideration and skill. Love it.

What a majestic tree. Wonderful textures and perspective Deborah!

another masterpiece! : )

WoW….stunning!

that is in amazing photograph its a photo that speaks for itself

awesome Deborah. What an amazing photo

Beautiful tree great shot

Wow!!.....Nature is truly magnificient and can make us pale in comparison…perfect having a person in the shot to remind us how small we really are in the perspective of life…Great shot!

This is a wonderful shot. I think about the same thing when I capture God’s creations on film. Well done

Your prespective is wonderful.. your words even better.. makes ya really think what is the message huh ?

Wonderful work Deborah, great title too! I’m really into vignettes and it works so well in this piece! :D

This is outstandingly beautiful. the men standing there adds to it in that it really gives perspective in terms of the size of that tree. the tonal quality of the images really appeals to me too. Fantastic. Love this.

An incredible shot Deborah!! You have done a brilliant tribute to such a special tree.

Magnificent.

Hey Deb, has anyone commented yet that this one should be the image you choose for your display? It would be at the top of my list!!!

wow what a huge tree !

I just love old trees, so magestic and wise looking.

Lovely work Deborah

quite simply one of the best black and whie photographers i have seen….your portraits and landscapes are outstanding

The thing I love about RB is you get to see the world through the eyes of others. How wonderful is this tree? There is nothing like it where I reside on planet Earth. Thank you for gving me a glimpse of your part of the world!

Ohhh, incredible capture, splendid work, really original!

Stunning!

If a hundred other photographers took this tree they couldn’t have come up with this. I think the background is just as wonderful as the subject.

thank you everyone for your kind, thoughtful and encouraging comments- they mean a great deal to me.

What a magnificent shot of that ancient tree, Deborah! Love the sepia to enhance the feeling of age, and it sort of gives it a feeling of warm affection too. I’m intrigued by the “face”, just above the rough bits on the branch stretching out to the right.

Excellent shot, what a beautiful tree

oh my what a beautiful pic!

Fantastic Deb! Wonderful sense of scale, beauty and atmosphere…soooo majestic!

eerie and magnificent the tree seems as though it is standing proud another great shot

Fantastic!!!

I love this photograph, it gives you such a feeling of strength, it’s beautiful!

Just love the form in this image – Stunning work!

What a fantastic shot!..Well done Deborah!

Really beautiful, Deborah. Aside from the rest of the scene, I find that tree fascinating. Such strength.

OMG What an amazing tree!! Love the tones….....everything about this! This tree gives me shivers….but in a very good way! I’m so glad I happened across this image!

perfect in every way!!!! great work as always

one big tree, great image well done.

nice one Deborah.

magical toning….it feels like a dream.

big tree – or tiny person?!

this is rooted in the good earth we can learn from the tree stand strong rise high nice photo

The roots and the bark are absolutely beautiful…nothing beats nature for creation…

Incredible image!!!

the person for scale is what works for me. what a beautiful composition. what a great old tree. fantastic root system. well done.

Lovely shot and a strong message to go with it. It really does make you think how insignificant man is in front of nature…..good work!

the beauty of this defies comment…bravo

my fave…

love the tree. great shot

The way this image has been taken magnificently conveys the great beauty,strength and presence of trees.
A wonderfully executed picture!

Wow, that is one of the best photographs I have seen in a long time. Everything about it moves me.

Lovely shot….... really brings you back to reality. I’m with you re the trees The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all.
But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake
1757-1827

wonderfully fantastic

gorgeous!

I dont know how I missed this its breath taking!

Really nice image!

This is the one Deborah! I love it!

What an amazing capture well done !

Big respect to the tree and the photographer)

WoW what a tree!! Awesome capture

wow. beautifully captured!

Wow :o)

Amazing shot!

Gorgeous shot!!!!

Wow, you’ve got a great portfolio here deb, well done!

really great shot also like the tones

wonderful capture

Beautiful work !

love this!

so true! once again very beautiful!

Amazing imagery….
There’s nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes