The silver birch refuses to bend.
This was an odd-looking stump at some beach in beautiful Kauai. I took a long exposure to get these smooth blue waves. The stump looks like a sea monster to me. Perhaps, I consumed too much coffee this particular morning!
This ice-encased twig in the Arkansas River caught my eye on a winter's day.
I spied this lone silver birch (or is it a maple?) just feet from a pond in Acadia National Park. It looked naked compared to his neighboring trees.
Somewhere in an Oregon forest....brimming with life.
Tree bark on a big, old tree. Looks like strands of weathered rope.
An endless sea of aspens around Crested Butte, CO. The side-lighting from the left helped give this image depth from the side. The inverted V-shape in the middle (look closely) provided additional depth. It also helped that nobody else was around!
If you are wondering, I simply call this blurred aspens. I swear I was sober as a judge when I took this image.
Great Sand Dunes National Park allows interesting vistas as well as this close-up shot. I think it's hard to tell how far away I was when I got this shot. (Answer: about three feet!)
I crept under a pier in Kauai, accepted that I would get wet and got this long exposure image (under 5 seconds). That allowed me to smooth out the waves. I was fortunate that my tripod was anchored in the sand and did not move.
The red leaves first caught my eye. Then, these white-barked birches (?) made the rest of this composition by providing a vivid contrast. This is around Maggie's Valley, near the Great Smoky Mountain N.P.
Plenty of wavy lines form in the Great Sand Dunes in CO.