Getting Arboreal: A Nature Collection

I
frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep
an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old
acquaintance among the pines.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

In follow up to last years photography collaboration, "From Sea to Shining Sea", JeriAnn and I invite you to our second annual virtual photo excursion. Getting Arboreal: A Nature Collection, will document a single trees journey from Summer to Fall/Winter to Spring.

Grab your camera, find your tree and upload a picture to your blog this week. After you upload your post for the collaboration, please come back to my post here and leave a link to your post so that I can add your link to my sidebar.

"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs."

-Ansel Adams

We will photograph our trees three times.

 

Mark your calendars, and join us for photographs near the following dates:

Week of August 23

Week of November 8

Week of April 4, 2010

I am interested to see the changes to the trees over time as well as the environment that the trees live in. After all, there is no snow in San Diego! (Southern hemisphere, northern hemisphere- the virtual tour is open to everyone! Camera phone, point and shoot, big daddy cameras...it's all good!)

Feel free to post a close up picture of a leaf from your tree and JeriAnn will make every attempt to identify your tree.

Sound interesting? Meet my tree:

 

Standing in a local park, my tree is actually a memorial dedicated to a woman named "Phyllis" who passed away in 2003. I do not know her, but I am sure she would be happy to know people from around the world will be able to see her beautiful tree. This first picture of my tree was taken in San Diego on August 19, 2009.

So- seen any good trees lately?

Comments

[Sandi]

This is an awesome idea!!! Be back later with a photo! Thanks for the invitation!

[Kim H]

Oh my this looks like a great time! I will be back later with photos! We are going to a insect hunt tomorrow! SWEET!

[Seth]

Trying to think of a witty tree comment, like if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to photograph it...! But since nothing actually witty comes to mind, I will just say count me in! What a treet!

[kim mailhot]

Oh this is fun ! I have the perfect tree in mind. You and JeriAnn make up fun games, Lady !Seth, you are funny and punny ! ;) I am going to branch out in my photographic repertoire and get me some cool tree shots !Gotta leave now, before my butt gets rooted into this chair...Gotta get me a life, too, while I am at it...Thanks Julie for the fun play time inspiration !

[katie lynn]

freakin creepy lady! I just took a bunch of pics of my favorite tree at the bum field (aka city park) by my work! Its like I stole your brain cells! I'm on it.

[Bea Neal]

Oh, I love my trees. This one in particular. A majestic Burr Oak. It's a prairie tree. It's bark would not burn when the prairies did. :)Beahttp://dog-in-the-hole-studio.blogspot.com/

[Marie]

What a fun project!

[Toni Brown]

I am a tree-hugger from way back, Baby ... but now I got no way of uploading my photos. Howzabout I write a piece about my tree on each of those dates and call that my word picture? is that admissable?

[Dianna (aka Di)]

What a great idea, Julie! I have a thing for trees. Count me in!

[JeriAnn]

Kim and Seth will have to share the Wooden Punster Award. Too funny!

Looking forward to all those leafy gems.

Ladies and gentlemen -- start your cameras!

[lee]

sounds good to me, I will go tree hunting tommorow with my camera in hand

[domenico]

Hello Mrs. Prichard. I tried to email you, but apparently hot mail is having an issue. I am interested in taking your Super Nova class, but my mother wants to know if its G rated(SOMSN)? Thank you.

[denise]

love, love, love this idea! i want to go outside and look for my tree right now but it is dark...i was going to blog about your site next week but may do an introduction tonight...off to look through my digital photos to see if i have any trees to symbolize the idea...thank you for your creative inspirations and support!

[grrl+dog]

Thanks for offering me your advice, I feel ready for re entry, but it has been a very thoughtful time.

I too have trees to visit, so this is a nice way to re stock my pond. Thank you for saying I have been missed.xxx

[Lisa Riseman]

You can count me in on the fun. I'm off to find the perfect tree and i will photograph it this week.

[wanda miller]

oh man!...just what the dr. ordered over here in my land!! i'm on board...Just ONE, tree! how great to see everybody elses pics. thanks...wanda xo

[alicia]

what a fabulously fun idea! love it AND you gorgeous photos!!

[Suzan]

What a great idea. I love trees. I have my tree photos at http://suzanengler.blogspot.com/.

[Sandi]

ok , Julie..... here is MY favorite tree.....http://sandilei.blogspot.com/it was great to get out there today and visit it again!!thanks again. This is GREAT!

[rivergardenstudio]

This sounds like a fantastic project, I was just painting my favorite tree today in a journal... I hope to join you! Roxanne

[alleyballey]

Hi Julie, I would love to join your three tree project..... I just got a new canon for my birhtday. So excited to see everyone's entries. I can't wait.... Count me in times three... alleyballey

[Toni Brown]

Mornin', J to the P -- here is the link to my first 'word picture' of my tree. sigh. what fun it was writing this!

http://theweightofmemydoormyroom.blogspot.com/2009/08/august-24-2009.html

[Stephanie]

Great idea you girls!! I must go find my tree....

x..x

[Kim H]

Here is mine :)

http://runningonink.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/676/

[lee]

here is mine

http://leekre.blogspot.com/2009/08/tree-sightings.html