I like this, quite a bit, actually- it's very haunting.

I love pictures where the trees are silhouetted against the sky.

Thank you, that means a lot coming from someone I respect so much. After I got my first camera a few years back I began looking at the world with a fresh pair of eyes, just looking around and noticing the small things... stuff most people don't pay attention to or just take for granted. Beauty can be found in some of the simplest things sometimes if you look hard enough.

I think you should continue this- and continue to share your photographs with us. It seems to me you have a good eye for composition, too.

Really? Wow, okay... I'll have a hunt through and see what I can find in way of pics that are a bit more interesting than the usual "snaps".

Thank you, big silly grin on my face now!

Iiii can't wait to see the pictures you take in NZ!

The very vertical limbs are strange but cool. I like the gray tones :)

I forget the species of tree, but they grow very tall and slender with upward poking branches. They're deciduous as well... Just happened to be one of those overcast and otherwise dreary days, and I kinda thought it was cool the way the sun was shining through the clouds. Figured the trees were just getting in the way when I realized one of them was kinda bifurcated. So took advantage of the pseudo-symmetry and ended up with this and a few others like it. This was the best of the bunch though.

Other than a bit of cropping, I did nothing else to this pic - the colours are all completely natural.

Now that I looked up the meaning of "bifurcated", I have to agree with your statement :P

Really? Being an architecty sorta guy I would have thought that would be a word you'd be on close, physical, sweaty, sordid, intimate relations with?

Oh, I had this issue in school, too. Many classmates seemed multilingual with their vocabulary. I was not so blessed. My vocabulary was never something to get excited about, but I manage all the same. There were architecture articles worse than reading Shakespeare. Some making comparisons between spacial relationships and "dusty orange vaginas". :)

I've been sitting here for the past 5 minutes trying to think what "dusty orange vaginas" could be a reference for, or derivative of... put me out of my misery, will you?

You are plenty eloquent enough, Sir.

The reference was made between spaces that were cozy, like the folds of a vagina. It was a stretch, but the discussion afterwards was quite interesting! That one made it onto my college quote board. That, and my classmate referring to his project as a fetus, to which i shouted, "Abort, abort!"
Those were some good times.

That was a terrible joke!

TERRIBLE!

Terribly funny Would have gone down like a cup of cold sick with women though, I would imagine.

No, those of the female persuasion laughed as well. We of a like mind. It was a fun atmosphere.

Ah, you surrounded yourself with good people then. All the best people have the most twisted sense of humour.

Exactly! The quite, sophisticated guy, had some stellar one liners. We were talking about old women teaches we have had. he pipes in saying he had an older woman for a teacher in grade school. "I always liked her. She had perky breasts."

Legendary! Bit of a MILFer was he? I only had one teacher at high-school that I wanted to do the horizontal tango with. My 6th form journalism teacher. He was a hot little number originally from Malaysia or Thailand or something I think. I know lots of girls had the hots for him also.

Aw, you and your school girl posse ;) I bet you look good in a skirt...

Oh I was well and truly in the closet at high-school, nobody knew I was having the lusties after this guy. As for a skirt... I have only ever worn a skirt once, for about 5 minutes over the top of my normal clothes. A flowery mu-mu shirt.

....

...shut up.

Who hasn't? :D

Very Occasional Cross-Dressers Anonymous Support Group.

We have a 2 step process. It's just a step to the left... and a step to the riiii-i-i-ight!

That made me laugh. Thank you :) You go girlfriend!

Uh-uh, you din' jus' GO THERE?

/me eats some fried chicken and watermelon...

I hear this too much on my walk to work when near the bus stop...

I love this! It would go nicely in a frame.

Thank you very much, Sir - I appreciate the compliment

Aww, thanks matey Simple pic but still looks kinda cool with the sun all ghostly like.

Very nice and interesting interpretation. Myself, I'da gone with upside-down lungs, but if I had, how would I have worked the round, veiled sun into my own analogic elucidation?

... Oh, wait. Tumor. :P

(Arnie voice) "It's not a toooomah!" (/Arnie voice)

I get what you mean though, lungs with all the disgusting fleshy stuff (i.e. the rest of the human attached to them) removed from them and all tubular and stuff.

I'm sorry, but I see nothing crappy about this photo. :)





Mark

Aww Mark, you are kind - thank you I quite liked it, but then again what might be interesting or artistic to one person doesn't always translate well. Nice to know that some thing I wasn't completely wide off the target.

Think, not thing, whoops.