Another point that I learned from Ansel Adams is that a photograph of a single tree, especially in context, could be as beautiful and dramatic as a wide vista of mountains. It is a form of intimate landscape. Figure 1 is my attempt at such an image. And this time – no toning! Sometimes just black and white tells the whole story. Here the story is meant to be the a combination of the texture and the shape. You can see the failing of the small camera format in the not quite there sharpness. But I loved the scene and I loved the subject. Loving a tree? Somewhere in all of this is the recurrent meme of the sixties and seventies, Tolkein’s legend of the Ents.

And this points to another technological marvel. The photograph was not taken with my Canon T2i but with my iPhone.