branch

Contributed by M Carstensen

This is a pic that I took when I was just randomly taking pictures in my yard. There's one tree in my yard toward the front where the trunk curves to the side continually, then bends upward at an arbitrary position. I took the pic at the bend. It has this cool range of focus, where everything close to you is blurry, then everything gets in focus, and it finally, everything fades into the sky. I like how the closer the object is, the more shaded it seems. Usually, darks recede, while lights come forward, but it seems to work exactly the opposite in this one. The thing that I like the most is how it has this rough surface, and all the branched are going all of the place, but in the front, where everything is blurry, it seems to be curved. It has a lot of contrast, like the orange leaves against the blue sky. I just like how this turned out.