Ancient Trees: Beth Moon’s 14-Year Quest to Photograph the World’s Most Majestic Trees

[n2doc]

Criss-crossing the world with stops on almost every continent, San Francisco-based photographer Beth Moon spent the last 14 years seeking out some of the largest, rarest, and oldest trees on Earth to capture with her camera. Moon develops her exhibition prints with a platinum/palladium process, an extremely labor-intensive and rare practice resulting in prints with tremendous tonal range that are durable enough to rival the longitivity of her subjects, potentially lasting thousands of years. Moon’s collected work of 60 duotone prints were recently published in a new book titled Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time. From Abbeville Press:

This handsome volume presents sixty of Moon’s finest tree portraits as full-page duotone plates. The pictured trees include the tangled, hollow-trunked yews—some more than a thousand years old—that grow in English churchyards; the baobabs of Madagascar, called “upside-down trees” because of the curious disproportion of their giant trunks and modest branches; and the fantastical dragon’s-blood trees, red-sapped and umbrella-shaped, that grow only on the island of Socotra, off the Horn of Africa.

Moon is currently working on a new series of trees photographed by starlight called Diamond Nights.







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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/ancient-trees-beth-moon/

[Kali]

1. wonderful photos

but these kind of articles irritate me when they don't give any info on the locations and especially the species. I love natural history, probably more than "art" so it may just be me.

[uppityperson]

4. it is not just you, I agree with wishing it told more about the trees.

[Major Nikon]

2. It would be very nice to see the original prints

I can't find much more information about the methods used. Some of them appear to be infrared film, and the printing method suggests large format.

It's very likely the original prints will be far more breathtaking than the scanned images.

[n2doc]

5. some more info

http://petapixel.com/2015/01/01/photographer-beth-moon-spent-14-years-hunting-worlds-ancient-trees/#more-154780

They sound lovely

[shenmue]

3. Awesome!

[Enthusiast]

6. I am crazy about these majestic old trees. Thank you, n2doc.