The tree that longs to defend Toronto

I tried to play with the perspective, but decided that the original distortion was better than the mess that I came up with.

 

Your thoughts?

Any comments or ratings are appreciated! :-)

A couple of notes about the distortion - the Canon 10-22mm lens is at its best at 12mm and higher, the distortion really kicks in at 10 mm. However, the DxO software does a great job of correcting the distortion with the Canon D40/10-22mm combination. The perspective is another matter - it looks as if you have the camera pointed upwards to capture the whole tree, the result is converging verticals on the horizon. One solution is to step back far enough to keep the sensor plane vertical, but you will have to crop a lot off the bottom of the picture. A more elegant solution is Canon's 24mm Tilt/shift (perspective control) lens - perfect for shots like this. Cheers, RickDB

A lovely composition LouAnn. You framed it nicely.

Looks like this huge tree wants to defende this town. Very nice B/W picture, i love it! Thank you for sharing :O) -E

What distortion? I think this is brilliant. It looks like a poster for a monster movie: "The Tree That Ate Toronto."

 

Wouldn't change a thing. Love it!!!

Thanks, all of you. The leaning buildings still bother me a tad ... but I love the tree so much. Emilia - I love your description ... I'll remember it every time I look at this photo now. Maybe I shall change the caption....

Excellent composition. I like the soft light in the branches. It is very difficult to set the building upright here because they are in the lower part and you will lose a great part of the branches. It is better as it is.

"The leaning buildings still bother me a tad..."

Lou Ann, I too like this image and that 'guard tree' a lot, so I wanted to see how much one would lose if one tried to 'fix' the buildings, so forgive me for having a go..... I suppose one could with a bit more work re-build the bottom of the tree... to give the image the base grounding that helps so much...

best wishes ~ mike

PS. The horizon is still 'off' a bit, but that would 'cut' more off from the frame.

super ! nice perpective ! cheers Jana