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My Lovely Tree.

  • 22-07-2014 12:19AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭


    I love photographing trees in the dark. This is the tree outside my house just now. It's a beautiful sycamore, hundreds of years old, marked on OS maps. If this tree could talk it would tell some stories.

    Anyone else have a lovely tree?


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  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    That's one fine tree you have there! Congrats!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Great idea, you might have overlooked a slight flaw in your idea of photographing trees in the dark though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    I love photographing trees in the dark. This is the tree outside my house just now. It's a beautiful sycamore, hundreds of years old, marked on OS maps. If this tree could talk it would tell some stories.

    Anyone else have a lovely tree?

    Lonely night in? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,600 ✭✭✭Duff


    Why do I even open these threads?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    wazky wrote: »
    Great idea, you might have overlooked a slight flaw in your idea of photographing trees in the dark though.
    Do you not see the juxtaposition of the glistening leaves against the glimmering lights of the faraway village?


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  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Easily the most beautiful tree I've ever seen, especially in those light conditions.

    Do you also have a lovely horse?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Good luck finding the cat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Good luck finding the cat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,628 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    The emperor has a lovely new suit, but......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Do you not see the juxtaposition of the glistening leaves against the glimmering lights of the faraway village?

    That of course is crystal clear, I love how you have portrayed the blackness of the leaves with blackness of the bark and all wrapped in a film of black only a summers night can create.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    The emperor has a lovely new suit, but......

    But what? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    If you had a lovely horse for that lovely tree you would be on the ball.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Candie wrote: »
    Easily the most beautiful tree I've ever seen, especially in those light conditions.

    Do you also have a lovely horse?
    I attempted to take a photo of my house but my knee got in the way.

    Btw, my socks are grey, not white :P

    Just realised you said horse, not house :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭sheesh


    they are clearly flying saucers. the attack on earth has begun!:eek:


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I attempted to take a photo of my house but my knee got in the way.

    Btw, my socks are grey, not white :P

    Lovely HORSE BM, not lovely HOUSE.

    And those aren't grey socks, those are FILTHY white ones! Admit it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Your socks are clearly white.

    Btw, the angularity of your knee reveals you to be a person of low morals.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    It's not half as nice as the lovely tree outside my house.


  • Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    You have a lovely floor BM


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    I like your faery tree with its faery lights all lit. Does it sing too? :)


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CJC999 wrote: »
    It's not half as nice as the lovely tree outside my house.

    That makes me almost believe in a God, 'tis beautiful.

    Sorry BM, your tree has been relegated to the 2nd division.:(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    CJC999 wrote: »
    It's not half as nice as the lovely tree outside my house.
    That's an ash if I'm not mistaken?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    I can really see this whole 'taking pictures of stuff in the black dark' thing taking off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,628 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Duff wrote: »
    Why do I even open these threads?
    This.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I zoomed out on the picture and found out where the OP's location is.


  • Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Your floor is spotless BM. I like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    It's a fine tree indeed Backwards Man.

    I used to have a tree too. It was an oak tree. Planted it as an acorn I picked up down in Fota Island. It took a few years to get going properly. It had a few setbacks along the way, like branches getting broken off and ants attacking it. But year after year you could see the progress it was making. Then one day a couple of years ago, the neighbours dog came along and broke the tree in two. That dealt it a terminal blow. It never recovered after that. A sad day it was after all the time I had invested in that tree. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Candie wrote: »
    Lovely HORSE BM, not lovely HOUSE.

    And those aren't grey socks, those are FILTHY white ones! Admit it!
    Grey ;)

    And thermal!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    I've 10 acres of ancient forest, big old oaks and huge ash trees, douglas firs and spruce pines with 6' diameter trunks. I grab the dogs and go for a wander through every now and then, it's a nice place for a wander. The wildlife like it too. There's owls and hawks, mink and a family of ducks. It's like a little world within the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭OneOfThem Stumbled


    Candie wrote: »
    Lovely HORSE BM, not lovely HOUSE.

    And those aren't grey socks, those are FILTHY white ones! Admit it!

    Only a hornless horse would baulk at the prospect of a trip to candy mountain.

    Oh look! Something just hatched in the cuckoos nest... it was... this


    thread


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've 10 acres of ancient forest, big old oaks and huge ash trees, douglas firs and spruce pines with 6' diameter trunks. I grab the dogs and go for a wander through every now and then, it's a nice place for a wander. The wildlife like it too. There's owls and hawks, mink and a family of ducks. It's like a little world within the world.
    Don't mean fcuk all if you don't show us a pic in the dark :P


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