my strange obsession with trees

Ever since I can remember, I've had a very strange obsession with "mangled" type trees.  It's the shape and texture of each individual branch that completely fascinates me.  I could photograph the same tree for hours on end...trying to capture the tree from all different perspectives, while creating interesting compositions for each frame is definitely a time consuming process when you look at it, but when I'm in the moment, with my camera in hand, I have no conception of time.  I like to think of it as my "happy place".
  This is an example of a "grid" I constructed, using 64 individual shots.  This was done digitally, but I've found myself falling in love with film all over again, so I intend on re-creating something similar using film, so it's completely constructed of actual photographic prints, versus digital files.


Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.  ~Josef Albers

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