Beautiful shot-want it on my ceiling. I also immediately saw of veins or rivers, rather than trees.
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Amazing Picture, two abstracts into one!...Thats awesome
What??? Rivers???? You can see plain as day that this picture is of TREES. Houson, TX
I really have to start looking up.
I loved this photo. Amazing!!
trees are pretty
Is there a way to make this a desktop image? I right click on it but there is no option to save it. Thanks!
Absolutely stunning photo.
Trippy
It does have tributary-like qualities...good vision! It's a sign of intelligence to see more than the literal...
Makes me wonder what called the vision to the photgrapher's attention? What an incredible shot!
These types of photos always intrigue me. At first glance, one could easily mistake the subject. Since trees are such a cliche, it's refreshing to see them from a different point-of-view. Love it.
You are right, I am not sure if I am looking down on the trees and roots or up at the sky and limbs
That is rather transfixing. Makes the head spin a bit.
looking up to the sky ... saw it imediatly. its a breath taking shot though
What an Awesome sight, just beautiful.
Very unique photo. The abstract nature of the photo allows the mind to wander in to so much more than the literal. Kudos!
This truly is an amazing shot of something we simply overlook every day. I'm actually getting a little disoriented looking at it which is pretty cool. Someone just walked in on me while I was looking at this picture and they started laughing because I was practically upside down in my chair trying to view it right side up. lol Love it. http://tsfreaks.spaces.live.com
It's amazing to see how the trees search out and grow into all the areas so as to get as much sunlight as possible. Beautiful! Could look at this over and over.
hate to break it to you all but this picture has been "photoshopped" to death
Agreed. It is clearly a doctored photo; the breaks between tree canopies are not realistic.
The birds evoke feelings of scarcity and fleeting resources. Repeating shapes and variations of shade make this a well-executed design.
I work in pathology and that picture reminds me of lung tissue.
Please enlighten me as to how its been "photoshopped to death"?
how would you really know if this has been "photoshopped to death". Have you ever been to this spot in France? It's nature, it's possible, and without a doubt, this photo is still beautiful.
Simply beautiful...
God is a wonderful artist.
wow. one word to describe it... simply, "wow"
I am a professional photographer, and I can say with certainty that this shot can be made without the aid of photoshop. Wide angle lens + different perspective = cliche tree shot. (A very well executed cliche, though.)
And you are called an editor you need to go see a shrink. My first thought was tree tops. Nice image.
And since "Offended's" first sentence makes absolutely no sense at all, I suggest "Offended" needs to go see a shrink. This picture does not look "doctored" in any way. I'd like to see some proof of the use of "Photoshop" in it somewhere.
If you would be so kind as to actually look at the Picture!! This picture reminds me of ancestry and how one main family can seperate into thousands of sub-families. I hope I'm making sense
At first glance I saw lightning white flashes above the tree tops. Gotta be a little confusing though when it's labelled Pine Tree Canopies when we all know pine trees are evergreen & don't lose their leaves.
I was captivated by this shot. So much i wouldn't mind have seeing a blown up of it. And then, i started wondering if it was photoshoped. Reading the comments, I guess i wasn't the only to think so. Don't get me wrong, i can totally be convinced that this beautiful shot happens in nature. I was just thinking, do trees really make it a point to NOT grown into each other's space?....branches not intersecting, not touching, forming a perfect puzzled piece that dovetails into another puzzle piece.... Something to research maybe. But like i said, gorgeous shot.
Anyone who has ever walked through (or lived) in any forest can tell you that this type of picture doesn't need to be faked - it exists. I know from first hand experience since my parents live in the middle of Manistee National Forest. However these are clearly not pine trees. Picture your basic Christmas tree - those are pines.
Who cares about the photoshop effect, it's still a beautiful picture. Just enjoy it. No one complains about the supermodels in magazines that are "Photoshopped to death".
I agree with Alex. People could have never created something so beautiful and captivating.
All these trees can only mean one thing - there is some land in need of development of some high-end condos, or better yet, a Wal Mart.
Reminds me somehow of the drawings in the Lascaux caves in the southwest of France.
At first glance, I too thought it was an amazing satellite image of rivers and tributaries. I had an instant desire to visit that place wherever it was. Then I read the caption, and did a double take. I still have the desire to visit the place. FYI -- I grew up not too far from Flagstaff Arizona. The Giant Ponderosa Pines in that area had the same type of bark, and the sparse needles way up high would invoke this same aspect. Definitely Pine!
Love the pic. The sad truth is the comments show how many of us are detached from nature. If you grew up near trees at all, there should be no surprise on the inital take. This is pure natural beauty, and the confusion with rivers and aerial shots perplexes me.
If I laid in my backyard and stared up to the sky, this is similar to what I would see. Beautiful.
This picture plays a trick on your eyes to where you question... is it roots or the tree tops that your looking at. What's up and what's down?!
I spend a lot of time looking up. Up at the sky, clouds, through trees from an earthbound perspective. Sights like this photo I find all around me. I've often wanted to photograph them. This is a great photo. I hope seeing it does encourage many of you to look up more often!
Absolutely stunning! A great picture. People need to remember that there is not just one kind of "pine" tree...there are so many varieties, and so many people think any evergreen is considered a "pine" and not every "pine" looks like a Christmas tree. Thanks to Softdev for pointing out how Giant Ponderosa Pines look the same...
I love this picture; does anyone know where I can get a copy of this picture to frame? please let me know, thanks!
At first glance I thought, this is real. I've lived this. I woke up passed out in this park, and that's what I saw. But then I saw it was France, and as a loyal Texan I'd never go to France. How can you photoshop being drunk?
In old-growth pine forests, only tree tops collect sufficient sunlight to sustain the tree's life; lower branches lose their needles. This great photo brings back images I saw as a child on logging trips with my dad. I felt very small as I stared up through the pines from my sleeping bag. Some pine species grow to 100+ feet high. At that distance, the tops tend to fade into the sky creating the puzzle effect you see in this photo. I, as BeccaTx suggested, would love to enlarge this picture to fit on a ceiling in my home. Where may I obtain a copy, please?
this is a wonderful picture of course, and generally very valid comments, although its pretty apparent that these are not 'pine' trees per se...which are bushy evergree trees that don't lose their leaves...those pcitured actually appear to be a sort of deciduous hardwood.
THIS is one of the MOST AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL pictures of nature's beauty I've seen in ages!! Maybe, we all need to take time from our busy lives and just look up towards the heavens from time to time, you might be AMAZED at what you see!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, it really looks like part of the Mandelbrot set (a fractal). See for example this pic: http://www.indianscifi.com/downloads/fractal%20treescape%201.jpg
Yes, or it looks like tree roots coming out of a snow-covered ground
StupidMonkey you are too funny. You make these pictures worth blogging about. I love it!
This would be cool on the ceiling
PS. How do I get a copy for my ceiling?
Never noticed that treetops in a forest seem to accomodate each other. There are clear borders there. Once in a while, you have to look in different directions to see something, well, different! I really like this one, enough to want a copy of it. What are my chances?
Hey, are those nests up there?
I love it! It beautiful.
The possibility DOES exist that it was photoshopped, even if you have seen a similar scene. The possibility also exists that it was totally natural, even if you haven't seen anything like it. Either way it sure is pretty.
Why do people insist on being offended for no reason? I thought tree tops when i saw it too, but then i could see how it would look like landscape from above, how is that offensive??? Since you're so easily offended, consider seeing that shrink again.... YES great photo, i've taken similar ones myself, and I don't see the point of "photoshop"-ing a photo of tree tops. That's just insipid. I aplogize if I "offended" anyone....
I recognized this immediately. I us to be a land surveyor. While surveying large farms we would take breaks from cutting line. I would lie on back and look up at the trees. In this shot I can almost see the trees moving with the wind. Excellent, much better than the fish photograph.
Looks like the skin of a lizard.
we hate the french, lets bomb them and take their trees! :p
very nice, it's as if the branches seem like roots.
I like the clouds that come off as lightning at the tree edges. Reminds me of a RUSH song: ".....there is trouble, in the forest, and the creatures all have fled, and the maples scream oppression, and oaks just shake their heads." THE TREES RUSH
This would make an AWESOME jigsaw puzzle!
FINALLY! A photo worth seeing that requires no religious or political debate. Just sit back and appreciate the beauty. I see some of you managed to argue or overthink it anyway. P.S. Cool Rush reference, Ro.
I love this! It looks as if the photographer laid down on his back. I loved doing that as a child, whether it was to watch the clouds, the stars, or to look at the patterns that tree branches and/or leaves made against the depth of the blue sky.
Awesome!
My first impression was a negative up shot
It looks like roots on snow covered ground as well. What a magnificent fractal design.
