Most of you know how much I walk in the forest – all year around. So the theme this week comes natural (!) to me – Trees. I will stay in Sweden, except for the header – waiting for you to post trees from every corner of the world! Anything about trees is free for you to explore in this theme – leaves, forests, fruits, stumps or saplings…maybe tree houses? Looking forward to seeing you here!
In the header, a famous site – The Dark Hedges in Ireland. Famous because of the Game of Thrones. There are thousands of pictures from under those old giants…I guess it must be the most photographed tree avenue ever?
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. – Jane Goodall
This is Mille, my first Lagotto, posing nicely… As a child I too spent many hours every day in the forest and in the trees – climbing, jumping, playing and wishing I could swing in lianas, like Tarzan. Sigh…
A tree grows. If you’re staying the same, something is wrong. You’re not alive. – Hamza Yusuf
This grand old Sallow stands in our summer garden, and someone lives in this flat every year. This spring a Eurasian blue tit – but, the family left last week for new adventures!
Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish. ― Munia Khan
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. – Carolus Linnaeus
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. – Jaime Lerner
I’m just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree. – Ryuichi Sakamoto
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. – Robert Frost
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. – Albert Schweitzer
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther
I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don’t think it’s true of people who’ve grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don’t think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it’s a different kind of love. – Arundhati Roy
Hope I haven’t been ”too much” with many photos this week – but you who know me will understand – Trees have always been close to my heart and a big part of my life. Now I am really looking forward to seeing Your posts – hopefully you too will have a great time with this challenge! Thank you to Patti for last week’s abundance of Favorite Things –
Have you seen these?
- Manja Mexi Moving sends us a many coloured and varied gallery.
- Life at the edge shows us the view from her house – a road filled with flowers!
- Lifelessons, Judy Dykstra – Brown gives us a variety of spectacular favorites.
- And for precious moments in time, go visit Wind Kisses!
Amy will post the next challenge on Saturday, June 22. For more information on how to join the Lens-Artists Photo Challenges, click here for details. Most importantly, remember to TAG your post “Lens-Artists ” so it appears in the Reader.
Finally, wishing you all an inspiring week!
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Beautiful! Trees are my favorite subject
Thank you – I believe many of us love them!
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Great captures Ann-Christine, this is my entry: ”https://balance440.wordpress.com/2019/06/23/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/”.
Thank you – and glad to see you again, Paolo!
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A super post! Wonderful quotes … a world of trees! We are so fortunate to have many on our property … but none with a handsome pooch! 🙂
Then I am happy if you like it! And there can never be too many trees – can there? Good you have many on your property.
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Thank you, Sylvia! There are many quotes on trees, so I am glad there must be many tree lovers around the world. And Mille was a charmer, an unforgettable dog.
Such interesting pictures of trees and the quotes that accompany them. Especially love the great picture of Millie looking through the trunk!! Here is my post on trees: https://mycolorfulexpressions.com/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/
Beautiful tree photos, Ann-Christine. The first one is stunning! I would go crazy if I were at that place!
Do you have problem selecting photos? I kept switching photos; I love them all. I mean trees, not my photos 😉
Have a wonderful day.
Well, Helen, this means you love many trees and that is a good thing! 😊And the Dark Hedges – is scary at night…
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Fantastic challenge, Leya!
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So glad it resonated with you! Thank you for joining in!
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Beautiful images, I love the image with the mist in it and the bare trees,… like you, I love woodland walks and trees and nature. Here is my contribution to the challenge. http://ryanphotography.uk/2019/06/20/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/
Thank you – glad you enjoyed them!
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Ann-Christine, I love your trees. I also love trees and have photos from my travel. I decided to tell the tree stories from my garden.
https://theshowersofblessings.com/2019/06/19/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-tree-stories/
I think you made a happy decision – your garden is a dream! Thank you for sharing your stories!
Thank you, Ann-Christine. I’m happy with my trees and the abundant fruits!!
I would think you are😊
Exactly, Ann-Christine. 🙂
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Beautiful tree images, Ann-Christine! Thanks so much for setting this challenge.
Thank you for coming along with us – and I do love trees!
Trees are always beautiful and give beauty to everything.
https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/
So they are – thank you for joining in!
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As I knew I would, I loved making this post. 🙂 As I’ve enjoyed your gallery, now for the second time. Where would we be without them? Thank you for this theme!
https://manjameximoving.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/lens-artists-pc-my-life-with-trees/
And I loved reading this post, Manja! You have a beautiful mind.
❤
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There are so many comments, I can’t seem to find my other comment. Anyway, here is mine. https://travel-with-tech.blog/2019/06/19/the-trail-to-the-mountains/
Thank you – and I agree about the comments. Better to link twice!
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It’s amazing how trees can have so many different characters and moods. Love your photos, Leya. odaciuk.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/passing-mood-of-trees/
It is amazing indeed – and you found even more moods for us!
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I love trees too! And you have some beauties here along with the wonderful quotes. I shall have a post for you later this week with a few different trees. (Love the header photo and also the one third from the end).
Glad you are a tree lover too! Looking forward to seeing your choices!
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Your tree photographs are simply stunning! Wow!
My contribution: http://oneletterup.com/2019/06/18/trees
I am glad you liked them! I must say, I found your post very loving and sensitive. Thank you for posting some lovely feeling.
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
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This is a lovely selections of trees, Leya. Since I’ve never seen the Game of Thrones – yes, there are people who haven’t seen it – I’m so pleased you posted the ‘The Dark Hedges’ they’re magnificent. They are a treat for the eyes. Of course, I love little Millie peaking through the hole in the tree. Isn’t it the cutest when they do whimsical things. It’s even more special if you can capture the moment. Nicely done …..
Isadora😎
https://isadoraartandphotography.com/2019/06/17/lens-artists-photo-challenge-trees/
So glad you enjoyed the Dark Hedges and Mille! In fact, I have not seen anything of Game of Thrones either – but many people love it I understand! Thank you for joining in!
It’s always a pleasure to see the choices by so many talented photographers. Thank you for hosting along with the other bloggers.
Isadora 😎
You are very kind, Isadora – and really, the pleasure is ours!
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Beautiful trees Ann-Christine and the old hedges in Ireland are amazing! Our contribution for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2019/06/17/haibun-forest-rain/
Xenia, so glad to see you here! Thank you – I will pop over!
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Not only trees, hon, but I know you love this place. 🙂 🙂 https://restlessjo.me/2019/06/17/jos-monday-walk-serra-do-topo-to-faja-dos-cubros/
Jo, Jo, dearest – I just left your place with a tear in my eye – Thank You!
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Here are my trees – https://myheart2heart.blog/2019/06/17/my-love-for-you-is-evergreen/
Thank you – I can have trees always, everywhere and forever!
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Lovely pictures 💕
Thanks! ♥
You have some beautiful photos! I especially like the foggy one!
Here’s my entry:
https://wp.me/p3RE1e-7XB
So glad you like them – and foggy ones are so atmospheric.
Here’s my contribution:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/06/16/lens-artists-photo-challenge-trees/
Thank you, David!
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These photos are great. I admire all of them. I also love trees, but I find that photographing trees effectively can be quite challenging,
It is – it almost never turns out the way you would like it too…Glad you enjoyed these though! I think the most difficult is the single trees – a forest is easier. But the real feeling is never captured to the full.
Yes I agree – a portrait of a single tree is difficult. And then the high dynamic range in a forest can also be tricky! I really like all of your tree photos in this post, they are lovely.
Thank you – appreciate your comment very much!
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Your trees are SO lovely.
Here are a few of mine, from a recent trip: https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/
Thank you for commenting and welcome to the challenge!
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For sure I love this article. I have never seen such trees.
Glad to share them!
I will like to see more of this.
Dark hedges …. beautiful avenue. I have used the same. What fantastic gallery you have here and the quotes. Love the doggie picture and the one with the elk. The fantastic subject this week … even if I’m not out and about in the forests anymore, I could put a gallery together. A-C, you can never do or be too much. *smile
Have to post my link here, don’t understand why my plingback doesn’t work. https://wp.me/p293Pw-hFm
OK!
Aww, Viveka, thank you! You sent a completely lovely gallery of trees – and I adored that Danish tree too. And Budapest- so beautiful. Interesting with Tony Curtis.
Hope you are feeling all right now!
Yes, I can’t understand how they could cut it down … stunning and so healthy. Thanks for asking, I feel a bit better today … my friends from Sjöbo came on visit. Going for more test tomorrow, only the Day Clinic. Wrote a letter to my doctor in Helsingborg that he are not aloud to do a full cystoscopy if I’m wake. If not I will walk out. See what he does. I had the most painful CT scan on Friday. The staff was in total shock.
This sounds crazy – a painful CT?
Yes, when they gave me the contrast – if I hadn’t been lying down, I would have fainted, was crying like a baby. Inconsistent pain in the bladder,
😦 So sorry, Viveka. Hope it only gets better!
I really hope so too … Poland is coming up and I have no plans to lose out on that trip.
I hope not!
A-C, only the first name of it. *smile
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Oh I so adore your header photo. 😀 😀 Your tree gallery is magnificent. I went for size of trees this week. Hope your enjoy my entry.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/06/16/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-and-sunday-trees-396/
Thank you so much, Cee! I will pop over for your sizes!
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Great shots.
The one I like the most is the one with the bare trees and the sunlight coming through parts of the clouds. I like the muted colours in that shot, as well as the low detail making things a little bit more ambiguous.
Here’s mine for the week:
https://stupidityhole.wordpress.com/2019/06/16/skywrite-past-the-tree/
Thank you so much for commenting and joining in again, SH!
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What a beautiful tree post, AC! These photos are magnificent!
The header… I’m speechless. Love the stories and quotes. 🙂 ❤
So glad you enjoyed it, Amy! I was afraid it would be too much, but it seems many people love trees. And the Dark Hedges – I love them too.♥
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Ooooo. TREES! Great topic selection. Great photo selection! I know I have ump-teen tree photos. I’ll be diggin’!
Haha, well, I am really looking forward to your entry – I guess it will be hard to choose from ump-teen shots!
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The most amazing trees A-C 🙂
Thank you, Brian – common trees in Sweden maybe, but not in Australia!
Quite right. I don’t think much about my trees but for overseas viewers they would seem different.
♥ So it is – a fantastic world!
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Lovely trees! the one with Millie is my favourite 😃
Glad you liked them – and Mille was a great charmer.
Thank you 💖
These are all beautiful. Trees are just amazing:)
And without them we are all lost!
Wonderful post and terrific challenge Ann-Christine. I adore your opening photo AND the puppy peeking thru the tree. They’re all beautiful but those really got to me!
Glad they got to you, Tina! Did you ever see something of Game of Thrones? I think every Swede did except me…had to go there myself instead ;-D. I don’t know how popular it was in the US, but very, I guess. Mille, in his heaven, sends his best as well ♥
I hope there are more tree lovers out there than me – looking forward to some interesting posts!
Oh my, it’s over the moon popular here! I watched a few episodes and liked it very much but my husband hated it so I never watched it after that. I don’t remember the trees from it but your photo is extraordinary
Thank you, Tina. My children loved it. They told me a princess had to flee through the trees there – don’t know which episode, so you might have missed it…
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Thanks for hosting and for sharing such great images! I’ve been waiting for the right time to share this one 🙂
https://onemillionphotographs.com/2019/06/15/6937-lens-artists-photo-challenge-trees-and-a/
Thank You for visiting and commenting!
I love trees too…a tree makes a difference in one’s environment.
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One can never show too many trees, from my perspective! Beautiful assortment.
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I really liked the quote by Albert Schweitzer and the image just above it.
Ah, thank you. That photo was from a frosty day and I loved the layers of trees and the grass below. Glad you liked it too!
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Gorgeous photos, theme and quotations, and an extra special thank you for linking to my favourite things! ❤ ❤ ❤ I'll have much fun with my tree selection, I know!
Thank you, Manja – now I am looking forward to your results of having fun!
Here is mine: https://chava61.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/lens-artist-photo-challenge-50-trees/
Thank you – will pop over!
Beautiful post, and not too much – especially for another tree lover! The quotes are also amazing. Will get my offering in soon!
Thank you, Lindy! Looking forward to your post!
The Khan quote and Sakamoto. Probably spelt wrong but I like them both. And your dog peering through that tree 😍💕
Thanks, Jo – I like those quotes as well. And Mille – well, he was a super dog!
I love your third photo where you have the mist covering some of the tree trunks. Here is mine. thanks https://travel-with-tech.blog/2019/06/19/the-trail-to-the-mountains/
Thank you for joining in – and glad you liked the misty forest!
Ah, lovely set of trees….I must search the archives…..
Looking forward to seeing your post!
It’s been posted a short while ago….
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Good topic for the challenge.
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Ann-Christine, this is stunning! I love the shot with Mille–as curious as ever. Your header image is also fabulous. Your post is a lovely tribute to the majesty of these gentle ”giants.” It’s easy to see how much you love them. Here’s my interpretation of the theme: https://pilotfishblog.com/2019/06/15/lens-artists-photo-challenge-50-trees/ Thanks for inspiring us this week!
Thank you for last weeks inspiration, Patti – and so glad my love comes through!
Stunning! Even the dog tree!:-) Good luck, dear Anne-Christine!
Thank you – dog tree – I will remember that ;-D
🙂 Have a nice week-end!
You too!
I’ll have to come back for a closer look. I’m up in my swing seat enjoying the sky and sea but reception is not good up here. Sending hugs 😍🌲🌳🌴🍁🍃💕
♥♥♥ Swing on, Jo!