Shackled To The Past

This is such a beautiful image, I love the color tones of the clouds.  Well seen and great work!

Straight to my fav's folder.

Kind regards

Engela

excellent light, tones, composition, so perfect. the straps making it even more surreal. great shot.

A very striking image that you are telling a story with - powerful.

Could you comment on the exposure and post-processing? Is it a multi-exposure manually blended, for instance? Any physical ND Grads used (doesn't look like it)? Thank you.

A fine image ,and great representative of the Earth Day,apart from its natural roots there are some other four metallic anchor points where it is attached to earth,what an extra meaningful beauty .

Congratulation.

marvelous image

awesome.....there is nothing except beauty and wonder.......

@Zsolt Andras Szabo Thank you. The composition is achieved from being only about 5feet from the base of the tree with my camera a foot off the ground, if you google Burmis Tree, you'll see that the tree is actually very different shape in real life, being top heavy, rather than bottom heavy like in this shot. 

As for the strap, that is what inspired the name. The tree is a historical icon in the area, and people are so afraid of losing it that they have intervened after it has fallen, or broken apart, and aged. There are many bolts, braces, and polls supporting it.

@a n Hi, it is single exposure using Nikon D40, sigma 10-20mm, polarizor. f11, 1/2s, ISO200. Shot in the evening just after sunset.

For PP, I did some dodgeing on the tree and foreground, USM on the sky to bring out he cloud texture, and used some masked curves to balance the brightness of the sky and ground.

Thanks

A beautiful scene you captured superbly here Dan. The Beautiful sunset sky makes an excellent backdrop for this tortured old tree. Interesting history behind the tree. Kind of bizarre to try and postpone it's natural passing like that, but I guess we do the same with people too.

All the best,
Neil