I love to shoot landscapes with one single point of interest. The simplicity really appeals to me, and this silhouette of a tree on the Murray River in S.A. was no exception. I actually went to this location to photograph one of the largest bends on the Murray, aptly named ‘Big Bend’. The light didn't do what I wanted and standing off the edge of a 50ft high cliff with 60km/h wind gusts didn't help the matter. So I turned around and headed back to the car when I saw this tree. As far as you could look in any direction there wasn't a thing, but this one tree. It screamed ‘photograph me’, so I used a Linhof 617cm panoramic film camera to record the image. Although the original plan failed for this outing, I learned an important lesson. No matter how beautiful the scene - turn around!
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