A Winter's Tale

what a starkly beautiful image, gorgeous treatment also.

Hurtlingly wonderful image Debs…..just love the detail in the tree branches…goes right down to the last twig…..Love the misty background too!

Beautiful work Deb, very spooky!

Beautiful Deb, the best shot i have seen of the “Robin Hood Tree”. This is where in the Kevin Costner film he rescued the young lad who had been hunting deer and was chased by the sheriffs men :)

This is indeed the ‘robin hood’ tree ~ one of the best images I have seen on RB ~ well done

Great shot the tones are framing are really nice.

Hauntingly beautiful image…great positioning of the tree in the frame..

Wow – this is beautiful and very powerful, Deborah, love your exquisite b&w processing and the wonderful soft vignette effect!

Nice capture Deb.

This is awesome ! Love the circular framing.

Beautiful…love this B&W

Good stuff Debs, and I agrre it was a cold day.

wow..tht is stunning!

wow…. it’s like there’s a massive moon rising behind the tree… love it

Fine tree Deborah, looks like have added a little blur which works very nicely producing a soft ethereal image – fine work

beautious. well done.

Simple and effective. A feeling of isolation. Also like the natural, I think, framing by the clouds and light.

So clever – love the way it’s backlit.

Very nice work Debs. For the record I do know how cold it was :D and it was too cold to be out where you were. Love the fruits of your labour though. Very ghostly…... love the softness to the sky.

Good work

Deborah, this is so rich and beautiful… melancholy surrounds this tree, but the branches are so alive with the promise of spring. I love where your art takes me, and everything you do is a masterpiece of mood and romance. Thanks for being on RB!

perfect

nice feel to this

Absolutely Gorgeous this is spectacular.
LOVE IT

Beautiful, evocative image, Deborah.

This is just gorgeous, Deb. Fantastic work!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments – always appreciated :)

Wow I love the mysterious quality of this, well done Deborah!

I find this ‘spiritual’ like Moses in the presence of the ’ burning bush’. When are you going to bring us the Ten Commandments of Photography Deborah?

Breathtaking- stuck for words

Deborah.. you have done such a wonderful job on this.. perfect..

Deb, this is yet another stunning image (do you ever take a bad shot???)...You manage to convey so much emotion in your pieces..this has such a lonely feel, just beautiful…

hi deborah could this be sycamore gap, wow it looks wet and windy well done

Oh my Deborha….. This is soooooo breathtaking.
Wonderful Wonderful work.

Landscape Deb? (Quick someone take her temperature LOL – It must have been cold, forcing your finger on the shutter before some people could enter your shot.)

Well. That sums up winter alright. Leafless, bare, alone and that mist lingering across the scene just dips the temperature by a few more degrees. Nicely positioned tree too, looks strong against the elements.

Wow Deb, this is absolutely wonderful!

What an awesome photo Deborah. It looks cold & so misty. Is the dark object on the left a person? Looks so eerie, cool

Gorgeous! It feels quite spooky actually – a great samhain card maybe?

I love the tittle, and the way the light is battleing to come through the mist. The line of the ground, and you’ve immortalised another tree. Thanks for facing the cold Deb, it’s beautiful.

great capture

amazing work Deborah – this is just so beautiful – words fail me. Just everything about it – everything!!

Has that Ansel Adams meets Stephen King quality…. lol very nice

Love the moodiness and spookiness here, and that wonderful natural vignette of the wall in the foreground.

This is gorgeous Deborah…...................I can smell the cold. Perfect detail, creepy, creepy!! Your book looks fabulous by the way!

This is a stunning b/w shot

beautiful image.

I just love all your work…. you make me want to get out and take more pictures

just wow

Beautiful picture, Deborah. So quiet and peaceful and the light is so magical. I love the aura around the tree. Nature is so good for the tormented soul … ha ha. You depicted this silent healing effect of Mother Earth very well in this image.

Wow! great photo.

Stunning composition! Love the effect here! Great framing!

amazing capture

wow…what an amazing image Deb….it has so much drama…you can see and sense the struggles of the photographer…the isoltaed barron tree also adds to the intesnsity of the image….the looking sky is very intimitating as well….magical shot Deb and worth the wait

lovely!

beautiful shot, excellent comp, this should go into the shots in the fog group :)

this is fabulous!

It was a battle well fought, as clearly you won. :) This is stunning in every possible way, Deb. I love the atmosphere and feeling from it. Magnificent work.

absolutely superb, cheers

wow, absolutely beautiful & haunting…. awesome shot Deborah :)

Such a beautiful image. It does a wonderful job of depicting a certain mood.

Great work! I can feel the cold just looking at it.

Nice moody image

Just a single tree and a freezing day, but it does so much for me! Chills me to the bone, yet it’s so starkly beautiful – awesome Deb, really love it!

it looks like very cold Deb..as always fantastic mood!

ver erie atmosphere. well done. It makes me wonder, will I go on, or will I run home?

oh my word, the tones and tiny details in that tree are breathtaking. it does indeed look quite bleak but in its own beautiful way. thanks so much for sharing.

Lovely work.

Love your style, your images reverberate off the screen, always so mystical & magical.

Beautiful capture!

Beautiful, haunting …what an amazing image .

You know what I like about your work? It’s “fragile” quality. It’s almost like your images have two sides; an innocent, joyful side and a darker forboding side as well.The resulting dichotomy is what I find so interesting. And if that was never your intent…well then we never had this conversation… :-)

wonderful, this and many more in your collection..

Had to cme back again….just love this image….what a beautiful beautiful shot.

really wonderful shot … amazing … well done

super Deborah the pp really focus the eye on the tree, well done.
Rich.

Love this kind of stuff!
I can never manage to capture an old craggy tree off alone somewhere.
:-/
I really like this.

stunning work

this is a gorgeous shot

I love the way you capture and/or create a mood with your work Deborah, stunning as usual

fantastic work! You have a great portfolio!! i really enjoyed looking through it.

Beautiful tonal range. You are a master of black and white

Amazing capture, Deborah. I love these kind of B&W’s. Excellent details in the branches. Wonderfully processed.

I see nothing has changed since I’ve been away …........ I still have to hike a mile to say something!!! wonderful as ever. I do love the way your work is opening up.

perfect in every way,

Wow isn’t this a wonderful shot full of emotion and mystery! Very Very nice ! Your works wonderful!

WOW! All the meaningful words have been already said. Instant fav!

I have seen this photographed so many times Deb – but not the way you do it! Wonderful as always.

I like the magnificent tree and it’s dominating mood. The fog makes it more surreal and mystic.

amazing image … your folio is looking great …

brilliant shot

Wow! Beautiful!

Gorgeous work Deb … :)))

i love this photo….. well captured

Full of atmosphere and technically perfect

Hello Deborah,

I love this photograph and was chuffed when I seen you submitted it to the North East group. I think it is so good that it should be included in the “Featured Work” section, so it has been. Click click

Thank you
-David

great shot

Wonderful looking, very haunting and beautiful

Top Shot need i say more? ;-]

How on earth Deborah did I miss this stunning work I really don’t know??? But I love it and well done for having this work featured too thank goodness other wise I would never have seen it?

Love these perfect lone trees…the fog makes it mysterious…sensational!

Wow, this is amazing. I love the ‘cold’ feel to this. Amazing!

Beautiful mood, very nice composition.

Lovely, you have a stunning gallery! Love it.

super image Deborah, full of atmosphere, very well done.
All the best
Rich.

This is just a wonderful image. Love the B&W tones and contrasts here. Very atmospheric. Sublime!

FANDAMNTASTIC!!!!!!!!!

beautiful image!

This is pretty eerie…nice work, very atmospheric x

I love this work …....So powerful.

I love all your work…..The ethereal quality of the capture is truly outstanding…Amazing.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
~Joyce Kilmer, “Trees,” 1914

striking shot

The tree is encircled initially by light, and then by a rim of darkness . Well worth the cold!

Brilliant capture of man battling the elements. Fab tones, comp and mood, too. Well done. An instant fave.

Gill’s favourite play and the last thing we saw together
I have never felt so moved by anything

and this is beautiful

Simply wonderful!!!!!

Wonderful tones and a brilliant composition!