A fist full of - rocks?

[Mad Aussie]

SO the rocks kind of grow up into the roots as the tree gets bigger then?

[Bambi]

it may also be that the rising water washes away the dirt leaving the rocks behind. there's an eerie quality to these shots that's quite effective.

[Marko]

nice set - shot 1 is my fave here!

[QuietOne]

Kat, thanks for the compliment about the exposures. The 2nd one drove me crazy once I got it into PSE. It was a bright, sunny day, with shade over portions of the root mass. So getting it to look something like what I saw was, for my level of expertise, a challenge. Lots of wrestling with the levels overall and picking out bits in small enough quantities that the changes didn't look like they'd been changed. I was pretty pleased with the way it turned out.


Bambi, I hadn't thought of "eerie" to describe it, though that's the effect I was after.

Thank you all for the compliments.

[Richard]

Great set, the roots definitely make an interesting subject. I think I like shot 1 the best because it holds it all in context.