picture of the year ,put it up !! 2013

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... I love old trees (hmm) . Sometimes they see the tarped floor and know what is next . My pic will be Saturday . Bring it ! Don't get mad , Plant !

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If you love old trees, then ...

I'd say my favorite tree picture taken in 2013 was this one, all things considered ... lighting, color, etc..



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The trees here are often capped and filled in (concrete or foam), especially when they are at the Shinto shrines, cleanliness and purity are key for Shintoism. Here you can see a lightning struck Cryptomeria japonica ('Sugi' in Japanese) that has been back filled with foam and then carefully covered with thin strips of Sugi bark-tiles.
Reg, the photo with the up-right tree shows Mr Komatsu climbing a Zelkova.
 

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This is from the tail end of 2012 but is a great picture of Mr Kobayashi and Mount Fuji - lightning protection installation in Shizuoka, Japan.
 

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Not only is it a nice photo ...

This is almost my favorite time of day ... or at least appears that way ...



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yup, nothing was photoshopped or edited in that photo.

Wow, your perfect light Redwood photo is quite perfect, amazing!
 
I still haven't decided the best one, I have two days ....

I have a tvma caption for that picture , thought it would be in appropriate, Love them Rings X.
 

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I took down a lot of compromised trees this, year . Have a lot of hero shots but , that’s not going to be my picture . This is A Poplar Tree in Bryn Mawr ,Pa. . Struck by lightning many moons ago. My good friend Thigpen ( aka Sawdust) did the aerial attack. Tall tree with a terrible decayed strike from forty or so feet off the ground to the top. No equipment access at all, zero. Rob took small branches that I lowered or he dumped, I let everything whistle to the ground that was lowered. That log on the ground was cut below the strike , and is a ground stabbing drop(about forty, fifty foot log). Huge hole in the lawn area , huge . Some people play with trees that bad and promise homeowners that the grass will be as perfect as when we got there. Not me, not with a tree like that . Depending on where you get it a yard of soil is not too pricey. Wires shrubs and house, tight area, only damage was lawn. That lawn got beat up more than Larry the cable guys cousins wife ( I can’t verify that ) .The best part besides this young climber standing over this crime scene is that after I dropped the Log , Rob and I went to X mans party ( arbor X party) ,we got there by one ? Saturday morning job , only time Rob and I can hunt together. Here is a young climber, untying the tag line, a friend of mines son who came to watch Rob and I slay this tree.
 

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Some nice pics so far. I would've hoped for a lot more though.

Consider, some people make hundreds of posts a year, quoting the do's and donts of treework, wagging fingers....and yet cant post a single photo, in one of the lighter threads here. Anything will do. No winners or losers here....but something to look at. Where are the competition climbers even ? you's must have a pic or two. Rec climber's....you dont take a camera with you ?
 
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