Trees are architectural masters - while some are just well behaved straight lines with a perfectly shaped symmetrical canopy, others can explode into fantastical and evocative shapes, with a huge meandering skeleton, and an infinity of thick and thin branches shaped by natural forces and the tree's own will power.

 

Then there are the leaves, cones, flowers, fruit - very humble or with imaginative colors and shapes. And the tree skin, smooth and sensual, or peeling like paper, or even rugged like an old sailor's face, brown, white, red, black, freckled, with knuckles, eyes, gaping mouths, old wounds.

 

My passion is capturing all this richness.