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Gnarled Tree
Published: 2004-01-14 23:19:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 4245; Favourites: 97; Downloads: 1642
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Gnarled, twisted being breaking forth from the dead ground...looming over its companions.Makes you wondered who was buried there!
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congratulations for the win!
Featured in my journal and in my club's journal, *Insect-Lovers-Club
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Thank you!! I'm so flattered!
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Congratulations on winning 1st prize at the TreesWithCharacter "Winter Tree" contest! I will be featuring your work in my journal starting tomorrow. 
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Thank you so much!! This was such a surprise for me...and I could really use the publicity right now! Thank you!
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I must apologize for delaying the feature so much! I have been ill and offline for almost a week. I will now write a new journal entry with your feature 
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wonderful job and congratulation for the contest. 1st
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Thank you so much! It was a very nice surprise!!
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Yes, go on doing such beautiful photograph.
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Hi there! 
I'm very pleased to inform you that this brilliant deviation has been featured in our club's November features here: [link]
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I've added it to our 
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Thank you! I will do that
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Wow. I feel exactly like that tree right now... weighed down by snow and cold burden. I'm sick, if you're wondering what the connection might be; my back aches and my sinuses are throbbing. So at least this photo is beautiful.... not like I feel right now. 
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i know how you feel! i was sick with a sinus infection a few weeks ago...i usually get them about once or twice a year. absolutely miserable illnesses! i hope you feel better soon!
i'm glad you like the photo, too
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Excellent work Pixie. This is a truely striking and beautiful photo.
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thank you! i was thinking of this photo when I saw your "Gnarled" the other day. it inspired me to go back and fix mine up a bit.
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thank you so much 
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Oh dear, I do that too - not just trees even. Bushes too, when I'm driving. Flowers... I was wondering actually which cemetary that was, in specific, if you can remember. I'd love to go meet it in person.
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hehe. yeah bushes, trees, CLOUDS....everything in nature seems to impair my driving abilities. We should watch out i guess! I think that cemetery is called Mentor Municipal Cemetery....It's mostly a veterans graveyard, and it's located near Tyler Blvd. I can't remember the name of the road, but it's on a road with lots of trees..a 2 lane road. I'll note you a better description.
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hehe, thank you! thought ya might like it
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Lovely stuff. The tree seems to be looming above, keeping watch and keeping the peace.
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thanks
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I love how the snow accents the picture. I love it. Great shot!!
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What a beautiful tree .... I love how snow turns all colours pale on photographies.
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I dont know what to say, I'm kinda speachless... I love this photo!
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This is amazing..winter itself represents death..and the graveyard..and the tree..just wow..I love this..+fav!
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Have you noticed the ghost emerging from the tree?
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Wow, awesome...
That tree looks as though it wouldn't belong anywhere else but in a graveyard, kinda creepy and angry looking. The snow adds a nice lonely, unvisited look. Love it. Great work.
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Well, it would look unvisited, if there weren't people visible in the background X.o
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i really like this, it reminds me of the bit in the poppy z brite book about the graveyards and the trees growing to take on the shapes of the dead dudes. or something.
but anyway.
I think you could make this a little bit better by spongeing out the red in the two graveyards, it kinda detracts from the rest of the picture, and that little red bit off to the viewer's left side. Because, the two graves.. well the rest are grey, and that's just, random, out there, WHOA hello two red graves. oO; and the red thing, not sure what it is, but, yeah. It kinda draws my eye away from the tree.
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Wicked pic! Sooooo much potential! That said, I have this wild idea of what I'd like to do to it: change season from summer to winter, elongate all the shadows and add reduced contrast and mucho reduced brightness and some color to the light, to simulate midnight moonlight, then add lots of gloomy fog settling in places and moving off into infinite murk ... just an idea for a "gothification"...
Very nice.
- Rhys
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i think i had three heart attacks while that loaded.. that is so grim and so sexy, i could stare at it all day.. and night and well into the next day...
excuse me while i take any drugs i can find that might thicken my blood so that my heart lulls to a steady beat...
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WOW, thank you all for the comments! i'll have to go back and stare at this photograph for a few hours to try and find more hidden things in it!
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the compo is great, love that tree
but something about the color just bugs me, so...redish.
color balance it in PS.
-peace
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wow.
This is incredible. One of the best photos ive seen in a long time. Wow.
Keep on keepin on.
Ride the snake.
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very calm and beautiful. a scene of death under a soft blanket of snow. very very beautiful. i have to mark it as a fav.
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I love how this captures so many different - angles, sort of... look at it one way, and it's as if the tree was the soul of some sort of wild dead person itself... another way and it's just another peaceful grave... another and it's the ancestor of all those in the yard, watching over and protecting them and crying for them.
I really love it. ^_^
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