Uplifting Tree Photos - Plus Some Abstract Artworks.

Hello world

I hope all my worldwide readers are staying safe and busy during these difficult times. The first half of this blog post is all photos of trees. Many of you may not have been able to go out for some time. I'm hoping these trees and tree-related photos, will remind you that they are still there, you WILL be able to walk among them, when this is all over.

Most of these photos don't need me to say anything about them. The odd one may. I'll just add that I NEVER arrange, or stage, any photos I take. I walk along and wait for something to present itself for me to photograph.

In the early and mid 1970s I had a good friend, an artist, visionary and poet, Gerard Moyles. He was my mentor and guru. Sadly, he died very suddenly, in his early 40s. He was loved and missed by a great number of people. He used to draw large scale pictures of trees. Gerard taught me that trees were mystical things and the greatest manifestation of life on Earth. You could see the mystical aspect of them in his art one he explained it. The lessons he taught me have stayed with me. The photos are just a very tiny sample of the photographs of trees I have taken over the years. Very belatedly, these are for him.

O.K. Off we go:

One of the strangest trees I've ever seen.

Wedded Tree.

Autumn Beech Trees.

The next one amazed me. Suddenly, it was at my feet, waiting for me.

An Offering.

Avenue of Beech trees.

I called the following tree, kalpavriksha. It is a wish-fulfilling, divine tree in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, identified with many trees. It is said to fulfill all desires and was mentioned in Sanskrit literature from the earliest sources onwards. It's also known as the Tree of Life. The one below, is a mature, very large Beech tree, about 30 minutes walk from where I live.

Kalpavriksha.

Bluebells at the foot

of an Oak tree.

Calder & Hebble Canal Elland.

Tree  Triptych.

The tree below is not broken. Many trees and plants, will grow either towards, or away from, an underground spring, (of water) Which direction they choose to grow, depends upon the type of tree.

Bow Shaped Birch Tree.

Dryad, (tree spirit).

Autumn Beech Leaves.

Winter Sunset.

Two Forrest Crowns, Winter and Spring.

That was the last of the tree images, I may put more on the blog at a later date.

Now for my graphic work. These started as an experiment. I'd been using a free Photoshop plugin for some years, called Sinedots. It's a wonderful plugin and a lot of fun to use. A couple of months ago, I downloaded Sinedots II. It's even more adjustable than the first version. I exchanged several emails about, it with the programmer, (Philipp Spoeth) who is a very nice person indeed. I created my first complex sine wave based pattern, with the new version. (It will be the first graphic following this introduction). I decided to see how far I could push that image, turning it into other valid, stand-alone images. I sent the resultant images to Philipp. Those images are below.  (Hi Philipp, I hope all is well?)

For those wishing to try it, Sinedots II can be downloaded from the site below. 

https://www.philipp-spoeth.de/

TIP:

Look under the heading, Photoshop, in the left hand menu. There are one or two other really nice, free plugins there as well.

Now for the sine wave based images.

Math Form 1.

Math Form II.

 Deconstruct 1.

  Deconstruct 2.

 Deconstruct 3.

 Deconstruct 4.

 Sixway Minus.

Dark One.

That's all for now. During lockdown, I've created over 80 images on the computer and several paintings. Expect to see some of them, in the next few posts.

Be safe, and be kind each other.

Gordon.