Residential Tree, a photo from British Columbia, Western

Photographer's Note

This is another for my Vancouver Residential series.

I remember these little puny trees from my childhood shuttling from one new housing development to another. I used to think they were the worst things to plant in a neighbourhood, why not some nice thick trunked plants, with wide branching limbs?

Every new neighbourhood had the same twig like flora, each provideing enough shade for a colony of ants at best.

When I got a little older I remember going back to one of my old neighbourhoods for nostalgic reasons and was in minor shock that the puny little trees had become nice big trees.

Imagine that.

Post-pro: levels, curves, sharpening.

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dharbott (1894) 2004-11-04 9:34

I'm rapidly learning that it's often what you leave out of the composition that makes for a good photopraph. I'd normally think that chopping the houses in half horizontally would ruin a shot, but in this case it diminishes the prominence of the houses, which has the effect of increasing the impact of the main subject matter, the tree.
Thanks for a great example.