Photo by Beth Moon. Via thisiscolossal.com
For obvious reasons, we’re big fans of trees. We’ve shared a piece on tree-sitting (which is, of course, linked to tree-hugging), and featured an environmental history essay that included some hypothetical dendrochronology. Now, we’re happy to find some amazing photographs developed in the almost lost art of painstaking platinum/palladium processing by Beth Moon.
Photo by Beth Moon.
Abbeville Press on Beth Moon’s book of photography, Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time:
Beth Moon’s fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civilization. All, however, share a mysterious beauty perfected by age and the power to connect us to a sense of time and nature much greater than ourselves. It is this beauty, and this power, that Moon captures in her remarkable photographs.
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