treetops

[Theo]

yours

http://theodoreblackphotography.com/tbp_1/images2/treetop.jpg

[habakuk]

What changes, if we don't see the roots of a tree top? What changes if we don't know the roots of any living thing, while we look at the outermost branches...

While I do like the tree details, the plasticity, the abstraction you chose with that crop - I am pretty much baffled by that ring. First I thought I have to clean my screen, then I thought it might be a unwanted artefact but I think you chose that deliberately as "the sun", right?  I love the idea of the sun being in that position, but I can hardly enjoy the way it looks here.

cheers
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[eob]

This is one of those images, IMHO, that desperately need an explanation of the concept by the creator (and I don't mean: God ).

[aprilS]

"Simplify" is something that's drilled into photographers: try to find the essence; distill what's essential; eliminate distractions.

At what point does that become simplistic?

I enjoy this graphic treatment of a difficult subject: what it's like to look up and see bare tree branches against a blank winter sky. The wide format suggests, to me, the expanse of the horizon viewed from where I stand -- so I remain "grounded". While the sun/ring echoes the rounded crown of the tree, the delicacy of it's branches; and both are rising even in winter.

That's what I impart to this image.