21 Impressive Tree Images
Image by G a r r y
There’s something about trees that gets to me. I’m not sure exactly what it is but something about their shape, majesty, intricacy and symbolism draws me to them as photographic subjects. Today I spent a couple of hours surfing through Flickr, particularly looking for Tree images (some OF trees and others that just include them in some important way). Here’s some that caught my attention – many of which are even more beautiful large (click to see them bigger).
Image by ~jjjohn~
Image by Paulo Brandão
Image by fatboyke
Image by James Jordon
Image by Manky Maxblack
Image by G a r r y
Image by James Jordon
Image by ~jjjohn~
Image by Rick C
Image by mugley
Image by ViaMoi
Image by G a r r y
Image by c@rljones
Image by darkmater
Image by Doblonaut
Image by Gregory Bastien
Image by ~Prescott
Image by mugley
Image by Okinawa Soba
Image by thorinside
75 Responses to “21 Impressive Tree Images” - Add Yours
October 9th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Some of these truly are impressive. The 3rd photo is stunning. Something I would like to print large and hang on the wall kind of photo :)
I got few ‘Tree’ photo – If you’ll search for ‘Magical Tree’ on Goolge images search, my photo appears as (sometimes) the first or the second result – http://www.ilanbresler.com/2008/06/magical-tree.html
October 9th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Trees have a beautiful simplicity about them… or sometimes a wonderful complexity. (As a mathematician, I love the self-similarity of trees — branches on branches on branches…).
My favorite tree photo is also by far the simplest: Birch — just a birch against a winter sky. The whiteness and contrast are really striking.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:53 am
I shot a tree photo the other day that I think is pretty impressive… http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanschreuder/3980301199/sizes/l/
October 9th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Great shots! One of my favorite tree photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zero101/2906194692/
October 9th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I recognize the cherry trees on the Quad in bloom on the University of Washington campus. the photo is by “Ric C”… the trees are a ubiquitous favorite for photographs, and this is a great interpretation.
October 9th, 2009 at 1:47 am
One of my favourite winter tree pictures. http://picturesfromthewoods.aminus3.com/image/2009-01-15.html
October 9th, 2009 at 1:59 am
Impressive indeed! My favorite ones are 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, and the last one. Here’s one that I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gloson/3867153316/ ;-)
October 9th, 2009 at 2:25 am
I really love the photo of a tree taken by the_wolf_brigade and which can be seen here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wolf_brigade/2676019432/
According to the notes of the photo it was taken using film and a 7 minute shutter speed with an f4 aperture.
October 9th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I took this shot a couple months ago. I used HDR (3 shots +/- 2) It is one of my favorite tree shots:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawleyjr/3562915571/sizes/l/
October 9th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Wow!! Lovely – the large tree with the yellow to the side? Very in line with the beautifully illustrated books I’ve been enjoying – Never Fairies by Disney. It could BE the home tree! Interesting focus tho on lines and curves, not so much on foliage – for a collage of trees I’m so surprised that there’s not more greening. And Spanish moss….lol….grew up in a river bed close to Louisiana, of course, that’d explain it. All I thought about the snow grey one is wow, they must’ve go up really early and froze??? Give me sweet Magnolias!
Thanks for a great site!
October 9th, 2009 at 3:03 am
I have to say that I share your passion of trees and how they somehow tend to draw you and pull you in. I love these images and I’m glad others share my passion as well. Thank you for sharing them.
October 9th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Here are a couple of mine
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xaTI_320AV8tZb-iRng4Sw?feat=directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GTVkizRISPpoCmJgxZbSIA?feat=directlink
October 9th, 2009 at 3:32 am
These tree shots are a feast for the eyes! I have been photographing trees for most of my life – I am drawn to them (i’ve painted them too!) … They inspire me! Thanks for sharing these great shots… Here’s a link to view one of my favorites that I recently captured at a local Pennsylvania park…. Enjoy,. http://www.flickr.com/photos/42952831@N05/3987596411/
October 9th, 2009 at 3:36 am
My favorite is the one by Doblonaut. Love it!
October 9th, 2009 at 3:37 am
Beautiful shots. I enjoy capturing tree images because, unlike birds or wild animals, trees are co-operative and don’t run away! Here’s one from England:-
http://chrisclintonphotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/red-beech-tree.html
October 9th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Every single one is fantastic.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Oh, and while we are sharing – here are my two fave tree photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeblemonkey/3521462681/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greeblemonkey/3272018893/
Clearly I like shooting UP.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Thank you soooo much for your emails. I am just a budding photographer, but, I have learned more from your website than all the courses that I’ve taken. You are very generous with information, and I want you to know that I really appreciate it. I am newly retired and learning all I can about making photos.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:02 am
All of the photos are impressive and artistic, hope to I can do the same thing as well. Thanks for sharing this.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:21 am
Fantastic set of inspirational shots!!
October 9th, 2009 at 4:24 am
I noticed a spike in the number of people making me a contact on Flickr today, and I followed the stats link here. Thanks for the honor, Darren!
October 9th, 2009 at 4:33 am
I would have been happy to have taken any one of these images.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:38 am
brill some of the best tree shots , you have given me some ideas for my collage photograph tasks
October 9th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Wow! Some truly amazing images of trees, great idea! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29831519@N02/
October 9th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Tree images are really tricky. Some of the above images are so amazing, and others are totally uninteresting to me.
I dunno….
October 9th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Very impressive photographs my favourite one is the one by jjjohn. Thanks Darren for compiling this selection.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:09 am
Fascinating images! I can’t decide if I prefer the silhouetted ones or those with color and texture! I have a trees-in-snow image that I like, too. Snow-covered trees
October 9th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Here’s a little set I took in March 2009 at Murrumbateman, NSW. I like the one I PP’d.
Helm Winery Treescape
October 9th, 2009 at 6:31 am
There are few of my tree photos. Maybe they are not so magnificent as examples, but I’m not a professional photographer ;)
http://randal01.deviantart.com/art/Almost-like-rainforest-90538560
http://randal01.deviantart.com/art/Old-tree-BnW-117881824
http://randal01.deviantart.com/art/Lets-climb-a-tree-109178972
I would like to see what You think about My photos.
October 9th, 2009 at 6:41 am
A stunning collection Darren. Thanks for putting this together….trees are awesome
October 9th, 2009 at 7:08 am
Darren, A beautiful collection of some very nice images. This is a great example of creating dynamic images from the simplest of subject matter. Keep up the great posts!
October 9th, 2009 at 7:41 am
These images are magnificent. Such a simple idea – trees – and yet as a body of work it is majestic and inspiring and certainly seems to appeal to a lot of people. Well done. I feel I may have to follow suit…
October 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am
I love this list! Especially the long exposure ones… may need to do some experiments myself! Here’s a silhouette I caught here a while back… really, no photoshoping, just cropped!
October 9th, 2009 at 8:22 am
No words to comment. Simply excellent. Congradulations for the successful efforts
October 9th, 2009 at 8:24 am
You’ve touched a spot deep within, with your beautiful photo’s of trees. I too love them all, all so different and with so many forms, some scraggy, but able to withstand harsh conditions, others magestic and pointing to heaven, many a haven for others to live in and for us, a breath of fresh air. Thank you for your awesome collection.
October 9th, 2009 at 8:37 am
link didn’t work! here it is!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vikkijac/3883810279/in/set-72157616624550766/
October 9th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Very nice! I enjoy all of the photos posted and more so the friends and contacts generated by the site. Thank you!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jakekidney/
October 9th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I have recently started to pay attention to trees and photographing them. I think they make beautiful photography subjects that may be overlooked.
I agree that there’s something about trees that inspire me to photograph them.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Absolutely gorgeous! I hope can master photoshop/elements to get results like that. Great inspiration!
October 9th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Wow. Trees never fail to amaze :)
I really like photos showing the relation between trees and humans (here from Africa):
http://www.focx.de/2009/07/30/wasser-unter-dem-baum/
http://www.focx.de/2009/08/23/spiel-in-der-wuste/
or as it is autumn, the colorful leaves:
http://www.focx.de/2009/07/11/herbstfarben/
October 9th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
these are really impressive.. been waning to take similar photos as some of these.. really inspiring.. hope to get a shot close to one of them in the future..
October 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
What a great set of images, so creative and so inspiring. I love trees, but haven’t had that much success so far finding good ways to shoot them. This has encouraged me to try more. This is probably my best images with trees so far: http://www.flickr.com/photos/romaniashots/2189844235
October 9th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
awesome pics!
October 9th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Excellent collection of shots! Makes me want to be a better photographer :)
October 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Great shots of trees. Well done to all who submitted their pics. One learns a lot from other people’s pics.
I too enjoy photographing trees whatever shape or form or wherever they are. Never one is the same.
Thanks Darren for sharing all your wisdom and sense of humour with us.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
if only there was a rule that one man should plant at least one tree the world would really be a better place. i love trees in the cities they absorb the pollution and the projects a contrast from the dead view of buildings and streets.
ps i loved the pics, good shots! :)
October 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
They’re good, sure.
But I’ve seen each one of them several thousand times…
Tree with birds, silouhette, twisted roots, solitary tree on the hill, in the water, with clouds, in the sunset, cork or leaves close-up…
Enough!
Please, please, use something original as the blog cover page…
October 9th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Wow… great shots! Just love them especially with the autumn season coming up!
October 9th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Totally Breathtaking!
The snow images bring a yearning to my heart. I miss living in the snow. Might be going to Mt Baw Baw this w/e, but sightseeing snow only.
October 9th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Excellent! I think you need a ND filter for most of the shots shown above.
October 9th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
WOW! These images are absolutely breathtaking! I too have a thing for trees, and tehse blow me out of teh water. Thank you for sharing your faves ; )
October 9th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Beautiful examples. I’d like to throw my hat in with three of my own,
In the mountains of Mexico: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinryan/2045250557/in/set-72157603000254329/
and two faux-IR:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinryan/2617200418/in/set-72157605866993669/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinryan/2593706969/in/set-72157603000254329/
October 10th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Such a simple subject yet so inspiring to be photographed. I find that all of the photos are really awesome.
Here are my collection
October 10th, 2009 at 12:05 am
oops the link did not appear
http://digiphotodotcom.blogspot.com/2009/05/dead-trees-by-lake.html
October 10th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Wow, Excellent Snaps, Especially the black & white
Two of my (humble) tree pics are uploaded in the following Flickr link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27743826@N08/sets/72157622424558589/
October 10th, 2009 at 1:19 am
The third photo – by Paulo Brandão – is amazing!!!
You missed the giant Redwood tree (featured in National Geographic).
October 10th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Inspiring photos. Trees are beautiful, but often difficult to photograph well.
Here is a favorite tree shot by someone else:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31892228@N08/3013481170/in/set-72157617547105878/
October 10th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Impressive, wish I could do so the same around here , but very few trees around.
only one I have
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/401685999/in/set-72157607953000377/
October 10th, 2009 at 9:09 am
With my last submission, my first ‘follower” latched onto my blog, so here ’s another favourite tree. Thank you Vikkijac. Maybe I’ll get more!!
http://www.chrisclintonphotography.blogspot.com/2009/10/lone-tree-on-prairies-where-shadows.html
October 10th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Impressive photos. I am also very attracted to the mistery of trees. They are chaotically(in a mathematical sense) beautiful, inspiring designs, their skins are generally wounded by people and inside they carry a life. As the same time poetical and also symbol of robustness,…Trees are fantastic.
October 10th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
WOW! Those are some amazing pictures. Here are a few of mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tykasper/3487260707/in/set-72157621814611457/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tykasper/3570386151/in/set-72157621814611457/
October 10th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Those pictures are absolutely stunning, I always found the simple tree to be quite a fascinating object to shoot. This is my favorite shot of a tree that I have taken personally
October 10th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
these are beautiful and inspiring, thanks for finding them for us.
My favorite is the last one. All at the same time it’s a collection of beautiful colors, a great representation of a tree, and a good abstract image by itself.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Great shots… i would have to agree with some of the other posters. I like the way math will imitate nature.
Some of mine are listed below.
October 10th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Wow. I particularly like Garry’s.
My favourite from a fellow photographer is the composite picture of four seasons of a tree (flickr)
Favourites from my collection: Mossy trees ‘dancing’ and relfections of a dead tree
October 11th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Wow some of these are really outstanding! I don’t usually get great shots of trees myself but a recent unusual one I found in Georgia turned out really well. Surreal Twisted Tree
October 11th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
here’s mine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/azoomer/3222523084/
October 11th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I love these shots. The creative “eye” shared here helps me try to look at things in a not so narrow view. Roots, lights and so on.
Just wanted to share one of my photos.
I’m new to dslr photography and spend alot of time here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43435473@N05/4000968722/sizes/m/
October 12th, 2009 at 2:47 am
I like some of those pictures, but in some of them there is toooo much Photoshop .. I don’t like it .. it’s a personal opinion.. if you’re so much into painting, start painting, not photography. but maybe it’s just me and my strange opinion.. I love the pure photography with very little Photoshop in it … or even without any Photoshop in it.
But I’ve saw some pictures in here that really made me start dreaming :) The image by Giovanni Orlando is my favorite one :)
October 14th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Absolutely love trees and all of these were just magnificent. I linked to this post and some of the photos from on my site… article coming tomorrow 9 a.m. You can see it at http://www.simplymodernmom.com.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Such amazing work, one is inspired to immediately go bush again. I have known Gazza’s work for a number of years now and his talent never fails to stand me in awe. Not only a good photographer but a nice bloke to boot.
October 14th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I’m happy to have found these this morning. It’s been raining here most days of the last few weeks. We’ve had a few good fall days thrown in that have allowed for getting out with camera but not nearly enough yet. I’m wanting to get some vivid autumn tree shots, and these remind me how trees can be captured so memorably and uniquely still. Thanks again.
My add in from a couple years ago:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shaunalea/2453143991/in/set-72157621964904112/
October 15th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Wow. Just… wow!
October 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
cooll..
October 27th, 2009 at 1:32 am
WOW… we see them all the time but it takes images like these (sometimes) to wake us up to their beauty…
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