b&w landscapes Tillamook

Great composition, well seen! Regards,

Jim

Hey Ian, I know I'm a little late to the party but I was perusing your portfolio, led here by your "Spaces" project which I find fascinating and came across this.  Maybe it's because I know that in order to get this you were probably perched on a wall with traffic whizzing by inches away on one side and a perilous drop to the train tracks below on the other or maybe it's just that I love this tree.  Either way, you've done a fantastic job of capturing it's timeless beauty.  I love the vignetting and your choice of toning... all very well done.

I find it so interesting with PN to think that some of us have stood in the exact same place and photographed the exact same thing, with perhaps the exact same vision...

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r34/F1Addict/IMG_9777-1_pb500.jpg

Shot by me on September 8, 2009 at 19:47 and quickly processed similar to Ian's for the purpose of comparison here, not the way it was originally processed.

Jeff, 

I do remember having a hard time finding somewhere to pull over and then waiting an eternity to cross the highway to take this. It is an amazing and inspiring tree, don't you think?

I am also amazed whenever I discover that two of us have unwittingly taken very similar images.

Russ Murphy left comments on two of my other images when he discovered such similarities (follow the URLs for some surprisingly similar comps.):

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8058443

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7619943

My most amazing experience of this is with this image: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7670341 .

That tree is out in the middle of the Owyhee plateau in remote Eastern Oregon, on a corner of a dirt track going to Leslie Gulch. It doesn't get many visitors and yet, within the same year, Marc Adamus photographed it: http://www.marcadamus.com/images/large/Chosen-One.jpg

Anyways, thanks for the comments.