Sir Isaac Newton w/ it's 40,000 lb. burl

[mdvaden]

Sir Isaac Newton w/ it\'s 40,000 lb. burl

Early May, I posted about photographing the 7th largest known coast redwood ... 7th Largest Coast Redwood ... Liked the way that one came out so much, tried similar on another redwood - Sir Isaac Newton - but with a yellow dress outfit this time for composition and scale. Here's one version ... woman standing.

 

[Colin]

Re: Sir Isaac Newton w/ it\'s 40,000 lb. burl

Awesome photo. Jealous of you left coasters and your incredible trees.

 

[Raven]

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WOW, what a hottie!

The girl's kinda cute too. Nice photo.

 

[SolesTree]

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Amazing trees! Great job capturing them in your photos. Keep em coming.

 

[mdvaden]

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Amazing trees! Great job capturing them in your photos. Keep em coming.

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Thank you.

Next go at it, I'm thinking of trying a certain huge cathedral tree / aka "fairy ring" redwood in the same park. And possibly with a light green, aqua or turquoise outfit.

Here's a sitting version of the tree posted above.

 

[mdvaden]

Re: Sir Isaac Newton w/ it\'s 40,000 lb. burl

In a 16 x 20 or a 20 x 30, this 100% crop from a 3000 pixel width file shows how the smaller components would seem.

 

[Adkpk]

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That is some burl. I hoped you watched her, helped her climb up there. This could easily be your best effort yet, Doc.

 

[mdvaden]

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That is some burl. I hoped you watched her, helped her climb up there. This could easily be your best effort yet, Doc.

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Actually ...

I asked her about possibly going on top of the burl, and she agreed. But I skipped it for one particular reason.

One or two burls had recently been stolen from this same park. And I thought it could backfire being seen carrying my lightweight aluminum ladder into the park. Would love to have gotten that shot, but didn't want to risk it. Not this year anyway.

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[ward]

Re: Sir Isaac Newton w/ it\'s 40,000 lb. burl

Mario,

Love the photos and the beauty. A couple of years ago I saw A-WOL (Aerial Without Limits) in my local park in West Linn. AWOL is a Portland based dance group where they are suspended from wires and trees. Kind of like Cirque-de-Soleil for tree people. Sky's the limit for the art form, it seems!

http://www.awoldance.org/2013/05/art-in-the-dark-2013-2/


Have you thought about incorporating this kind of madness into your photos? Are we only getting the tamer cuts?

Lovely, all the same.

 

[mdvaden]

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Mario,

Love the photos and the beauty. A couple of years ago I saw A-WOL (Aerial Without Limits) in my local park in West Linn. AWOL is a Portland based dance group where they are suspended from wires and trees. Kind of like Cirque-de-Soleil for tree people. Sky's the limit for the art form, it seems!

http://www.awoldance.org/2013/05/art-in-the-dark-2013-2/


Have you thought about incorporating this kind of madness into your photos? Are we only getting the tamer cuts?

Lovely, all the same.

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That would be awesome. Would almost have to be in 2nd growth redwoods though ... maybe in Arcata.

"tamer cuts?" ...

mmmmm ... yes, I suppose

The photo below (though local), is tame compared to a few redwood shots I've taken.

 

[Adkpk]

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I am not familiar with these nymphs shot out in the forest. Is it a photo contest? There is a similarity in them.

I was actually hiking in the Adirondack's one day when I noticed a clearing in the distance through the trees. I bushwhacked a bit to see if it was a pond or something. It was a pond. And a cabin up on a hill. Just as I got close enough to see what was in the opening a women came out of the cabin walked down the hill and out onto a small dock dropped her serape and naked as a tadpole dove into the pond.

These women in the photo instantly remind me of that. Vaden do you find these women in the woods or do they go out there with you?

Now back to the burls. How would one get these burls out of the woods?

 

[mdvaden]

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I am not familiar with these nymphs shot out in the forest. Is it a photo contest? There is a similarity in them.

I was actually hiking in the Adirondack's one day when I noticed a clearing in the distance through the trees. I bushwhacked a bit to see if it was a pond or something. It was a pond. And a cabin up on a hill. Just as I got close enough to see what was in the opening a women came out of the cabin walked down the hill and out onto a small dock dropped her serape and naked as a tadpole dove into the pond.

These women in the photo instantly remind me of that. Vaden do you find these women in the woods or do they go out there with you?

Now back to the burls. How would one get these burls out of the woods?

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I don't think there's a chance of the burl above being lifted. The ones stolen, pretty sure were close to the road. I'm curious to see the actual locations and almost asked last time down there.

The woman in gowns for scale, is a model out of Crescent City, whom I paid twice, to hike in with the change of outfit. We will do at leat one more tree and dress color this summer.

The other, is a local model whom I did a "TFP" (trade for print or CD) where neither pays the other, and both use some photos for portfolio, Facebook, etc.. Gets the model photos, and me more practice ... that particular one being one more test shoot with a 502 LED light panel for lighting. ...

 

[Adkpk]

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I see, thanks for the explanation. Seemed a little weird to be hiking in the woods, I've heard described in books and on here where redwoods are in a dress.