Solo Trees

This ongoing series is all about the isolated tree portrait. Mixing urban landscape photography with environmental tree portraiture, shots were composed to give each subject prominence in the landscape. The series was photographed along roads, beaches and coastlines in the Southern Caribbean and Baltic on shore-leave while working on cruise ships and coastal areas in the Big Bend region of Florida of the Southern United States while at home. The interesting interactions with human-made objects also played a part as images reveal ways in which urban trees interact with their environments showing how greenery in our urban environments create a sense of place, a calming backdrop or presence that is more often felt than thought about. Trees and green spaces add to our well-being, and it is a goal of this project to bring a little bit of that inside. Some principal influences included: Michael Kenna, David Burdney and Jeff Seltzer.