Think I saw something on the excellent Gardners World or Chelsea flower show. were they looked at Dahlia flowers and discussed this. Still trying to fully understand Wabi Sabi
Worthy of a sticky..Good photo's i know how dificult it is to get the best angle to make a picture show what you see in the target.. I regularly see things like this in the old and damp little forest behind my house. It contains a lot of very old trees several always blow over crack or get ripped out of the ground about every storm that passes. Than the moss and ferns etc. take all over decaying the wood. It constantly changes with new inspirational sceneries.. Never realy took the camera with me when i do my regular stroll in there. I try not to forget next time..
Or maybe Lucas Numbers...looking that up Tim
I just take a few pictures from different angles, including wider angles to make sure I've captured the image I want. The quality of the image is so good that there is still plenty of information left after I've cropped it.
I love those old places. We have Ancient Woodlands in the UK, those that have been in existence since 1600 AD. The theory is that they're most likely remnants of the original wildwood that covered the country in the wake of the retreating glaciers 10,000 years ago. Some of them can be very foreboding though.Nice Topic Tim..
Actualy i live in the most natural area of the country, the Dutch mountains at the feet of the German Eifel and Belgium Ardennes. But unfortunately also vastly urbanized since the 1950 with here and there small forests but most are manicured.. That's why our erea is called Park City.. It used to be farmland and forests for miles and miles.. But around the 1940's they found coal, atracted vast numbers of mineworkers from all over the place and started urbanizing and exploiting. Little farmers vilages expanded into little cities and in between every little city is a little forest.. Mines are gone, ecomicaly crashed, forests what's left are devided and now to find a new identity all little dull, bankrupt and boring wanabe cities made one big Park City, so called proud to be the greenest urbanized area of the country. But economicaly 3th world region of the Netherlands, with the highest unemployment rates and not even 2 miles of straight forest strech left.. Very few are still left as they were, but 90% is paved, manicured and trimmed.
