We spoken quite a bit about the intrinsic nobility of trees as a photographic subject.  One of the difficulties in photographing them is that they can be quite tall and capturing all that length causes you to tip your camera upwards to the sky often creating distortion.  In this context, I was impressed this week by a photograph by Narendra Shrestha of the EPA showing, well, a tree hugger. And people, there is no shame in being a tree hugger!    The tree-hugger in question is a student celebrating World Environment Day in the forest of Gokarna on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, on June 5. There were, in fact,  2,001 people simultaneously hugging trees for two minutes in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record.  Yes there is a reod for just about everything!  I have to admire both the express way in which the student’s hand portray a tender affection to nature and the way in which the photographer captures our eyes and in breathtaking speed takes them to the top of the forest’s canopy.