It was very exciting and gratifying to get the first participants in this brand-new photo challenge. This installment of the Tuesday Photo Challenge was all about texture.
There’s nothing more likely to find representational concepts in abstract form than the human mind. The Yoga Tree is a fine example of this!
A Proper Asana
Yes, in essence, she is a mere tree, whose form has been shaped by years of growth in a climate and environment, for which the current shape was an optimal adaptation. Being on a farm, she had to deal with growing around a discarded oil tank, which almost certainly contributed to the curvature.
To our human mind, she presents an intriguing shape that we look to interpret; as she presents this shape, we see arms stretching to the sky in a pose that might remind us of a yoga asana: the Yoga Tree is born!
During the Summer, when she is ensconced in a fine set of foliage, there are other shapes to discover. I’ll be sure to touch upon these in a future post!
My question to you: what did you see first time you laid eyes on this tree?
Technical Details
This image was captured with an iPhone 5S using the standard Camera app and enhanced using the Instagram app.
As this blog didn’t evolve much over the past couple of years, today was a perfect time for the second daily task in the Blogging 101 course from WordPress’ Blogging University: Take Control of Your Title and Tagline.
It was time to rid this blog of the old title of ‘jansenphoto’, as my name doesn’t truly reflect me. The new title ‘Dutch goes the Photo’ actually tells you something about me, my background and approach to photography.
Cryptomorphosis 1
The new tagline ‘Focus Hocus Pocus’ is a nod to one of my favorite Dutch bands, Focus and one of their great songs ‘Hocus Pocus’. Music like that never gets old, just like novel approaches to photography keep things fresh and exciting.
Another link back to the ‘Focus Hocus Pocus’ is on view in the image here, which I captured in the Netherlands about 5 years ago. All the magic in this image titled ‘Cryptomorphosis 1’ was done in-camera with only minor touch-ups in Photoshop…
