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Whether I'm in the rain drenched wilds of Snowdonia, or a sun kissed island in the Mediterranean, I just can't resist a characterful tree.
This particular tree is of the sun kissed variety, and although it doesn't have to cope with the freezing cold and wet of my local specimens, its location, perched on a limestome cliff at the Mirador de ses Animes on the west coast of Mallorca, means it has to cope with some serious winds and drought.
I'm always drawn, photographically speaking, to solitary trees that have been shaped by adverse conditions, wondering how long they've been alive and what stories they might have to tell if they could talk.
So, of course, I had to photograph this specimen.
The sunny, colourful original RAW file out of the camera didn't really do justice to the tree's shapes and textures that I wanted to highlight in the final image.
So a conversion to monochrome, with some careful tweaking of the colour channels to give the tree the necessary definition against the backdrop of sea and sky, delivered the result I was after.
Filename - mallorca tree 01.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 45mm
Exposure - 1/80 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Mirador de ses Animes, Mallorca
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Polarising filter used to darken sky
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