London plane is one of the most ubiqutous urban trees in the world. A chance hybrid between P. orientalis and P. occidentalis it was first noted in the 1600’s. Renouned for the ability to survive in polluted cities.
The trunk takes fantastical shapes, excentuated by exfoliating bark which varies in tone from pale grey-green to buff-brown.
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iPhone 8 using ProCamera II, processed in Lightroom.
This is TREE BARK?? Wonderful!! It could be a fossilized dinosaur. Or a view of a desert formation somewhere. I love the tonalities, with just enough detail in the lights and darks.
And have I got a tree for you – our neighbor’s 300-year-old Blue Oak. I’ve been wanting to photograph some closeups of the bark and now I’m motivated to do it.
Yes, on seeing the thumbnail I thought, that’s a treacherous mountain road in somewhere like Bolivia. Photographs which are mysterious like this fascinate. I think maybe you selected this portion of the trunk in part because of the contrasting horizontal and vertical lines - also maybe because of the dark edges surrounding the paler central part. Both of these features are really striking. And the whole thing is so tangible (now that I know what it is!). Super shot, Paul.
The image was born as a fun shot while walking our neighborhood. Most of the streets have London plane trees that were planted when the first houses were built in the early 1900’s. They are bent, gnarled, and have wonderful trunk landscapes. I think what makes the image read as something that each viewer creates is that it’s originally a vertical, turned to a horizontal.
There wasn’t much thought in the processing other than to try this and try that and try this again, till there was something on the screen that I liked.
