If You Would But Bend
Driving home from Garie Beach as the sun edged towards setting I rounded a bend in the road and nearly ran off the road. A golden light was streaming through an angophora forest rendering the leaves translucent and picking up the vivid orange of the bark of the trees. It was utterly mesmerising. This is my attempt to capture it the next day when I brought the camera with me.
I adore angophoras – if a tree could have acute arthritis it would look like an agophora – they start twisting and bending and gnarling almost as soon as they sprout and often the arching branches are almost as thick as the trunk which tends to pull the whole tree over so they grow sideways as often as they grow vertically. Each year the rough outer bark peals off to reveal this vibrant orange beautifully smooth trunk. And on top of that they are absolutely brilliant climbing trees.
Garie Beach is in Royal National Park just south of Sydney.
Canon 1ds MkIII
Tv: 1/30sec
AV: f/5.6
ISO: 400
FL: 28mm
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pene
wow!! totally awesome shot !!
Stuart Chapman
Well thanks for the interesting facts to go along with this image Geoff. They really do look fantastic as they weave their way around in whatever space is left available and the orange glow of the barks does look unique. The orange interplays well with the green caught in the light
Mel Brackstone
They look how I feel!
Agnes McGuinness
Gorgeous capture, Geoff. The light is wonderful. Agnes xx
kathy s gillen...
beautiful work
Matthew Hornsby
Great shot awesome..
amko
Beautiful colours and form. Thanks for the comments too!
Matt Penfold
The light and colours are amazing Geoff, did you use any filters/post processing?
Donovan wilson
the light the colours the trees .love it..
~ Selle
Stunning light – and one of my favourite trees :)
Tony Middleton
looks like an amazing section of forest Geoff ! well done !
simonesphotos
Really beautiful light and colour Geoff!
Globalphotos
Lovely golden glow here, great shot Geoff :-))
Marguerite Foxon
Lovely shot and of course I cant help thinking what might be seen with a macro lens 6” from the bark!! Lighting is just wonderful, and thanks for the commentary which I found very interesting.
AndreJ
magic light! . . . you sure captured the moment
Martin Muir
Great pic geoff,another world.
Monica Engeler
Very magical in color. The colors are just so powerful. awesome.
Donna Adamski
WOW!!! Those are really cool trees…fantastic capture :)
LoneAngel
wonderful shot
mstrace
I hope you don’t mind me saying, but this is both creepy AND beautiful. An absolute instant favorite. I bow at your greatness. You and Brackstone leave me breathless every
single
time
Geoff Coleman... replied
Not at all Trace – standing in the middle of an angophora grove is both beautiful and creepy because the tortured shapes of the trees are straight out of childhood nightmares and fairytales I think which is one of the reasons I love them so. Thanks for your lovely comment and feedback on the title – sometimes they come quickly and other times, like this one, it took ages – but I guess you know all about that!
mstrace
oh yeah…and brilliant title.
Michael Walters
What a really great shot, fantastic composition Geoff, and that light!!!
Geoff Coleman... replied
Ta muchly Mr. Walters.
Globalphotos
Missed this one…......beautiful trees and light, lovely capture Geoff :))
Geoff Coleman... replied
Thanks my dear – hope your not cooking too much at home.
Globalphotos
Am sure it’s still 38C ….... need snow !!