Contorted Snow Gum, Mt Wheatley

[Maris]

Contorted Snow Gum, Mt Wheatley
Gelatin-silver photograph on Fomabrom Variant 111 VC FB, image area 24.7cm X 19.6cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 121mm f8 lens.
A bit of camera back swing held the focus plane to the looming branch.

The snow gums on Mt Wheatley grow in a severely exposed area and remain low and tenacious. Often they are prostrate and partly dead from bush fire damage. But they still dominate the landscape because nothing else can prosper there.

[Mick Fagan]

Maris, another excellent use of the super wide focal length for the format.

That back swing, certainly appears to have done the trick. Something more often used for walls on buildings, rather than for walls of nature.