very old, but still productive Photo

Photographer’s Note

An old grape tree on the edge of a field in Cappadocia, at sunset : it is still trimmed by the farmers, in a few weeks the young leaves will appear ("explode", they say in Turkish).

Because of the altitude (around 1000m), spring comes a little late in Cappadocia ; farmers are keeping "3 eyes" - or 3 knots on each branch, to give more force to the tree and to prevent it spreading into a long vine.

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robertosalguero (110) 2007-05-10 1:45

I like what I see. It look like an uprooted tree. The shape and forms it creates are very nice and mysterious. Good capture under somewhat good light. The sky seem overexposed but the rest of the compo is very nice. Thanks Catherine.

Roberto

Mondaychild (1513) 2007-05-10 8:06

Hi Cath,

this is a wonderful photo, taken at nice evening light. The color and the shape of the tree match very well with the sky and its color. Interesting what you tell us about how the local farmers take care about their grape trees. Well done!

siolaw (25890) 2007-05-15 0:40

Salut Catherine,
Une vigne impressionnante, sous une bonne lumiere donnant de belles couleurs chaudes, les textures et netteté sont impeccables. Cadrage et PdV aussi.
Laurent

manatee (4299) 2007-06-27 3:15

Wow interesting picture and note for the complement of this very nice pic, you know I'm beeing in "the Ancient Bristle cone National Park" in California, the tree is the long living life in the world, some of this tree can live until 3,000 years old and many ohthers than are still stand up but dead has more than 5,000 years old. This picture remins me to this trees, I hope soo day I can upload some of this pics.
Very nice picture and thank you

O.S About the pciture you crittic, this was took it for Davida garrison Dgarr, he introduce me to this world and I ask him if I can upload this pic, so this pic belong to him, he give it to me, and i give it to him other picture from Baja south, so basically, we trade pictures.
Well have a nice day and take care Cath
Elias

danyy (69929) 2007-07-25 14:42

Bonjour Catherine,
je ne suis pas spécialiste de la photo de protrait, donc, je vais vers celles que je privilégie, la nature et même morte comme ici, elle garde cette brauté de ce qui fut.
Des couleurs chaudes qui détachent bien cette souche du ciel bleu.

Amicalement.
Daniel.

giorgimer (21676) 2007-09-17 9:21

Hi Cath,

impressive tree, the power of nature sometimes is incredible! Very good warm light.

TFS

Gio