Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011.

Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011.

All the pixels, but please take your trash with you, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5766414314

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This simple composition was made with a small FF mirrorless camera, 21mm lens, and travel tripod during a short hike.

I didn't have any ND filters with me, so ended up having to shoot this in the bright midday light at f/8. That yields too much DoF to allow focus to separate the tree from the background. But fortunately there was just enough haze to reduce the contrast of the distant hills a bit, yielding a high contrast subject with a lower contrast background. So it worked out in the end.

By the way, this tree is still alive and well 15 years later, looking pretty much the same. It featured in an episode of the Sopranos shortly after I made this photo, but I wouldn't ask it for an autograph.

@mattblaze
You took the photo, but did you take the cannoli?

@mattblaze
*wait, is that Sopranos? That might be Godfather, or something else...?

BTW, excellent photo; & even more excellent tree.