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Trees: How to Unboring Them. Mullenkedheim !ZD4Ay8nWso
Dear /p/:
Here's the thing. Where I live, there's lots of really big, really old trees. They're preserved as natural monuments, and protected because they have spirits in them (lawl shinto, lawl japan). There's like, a LIST of the trees. I sort of thought it might be interesting to like, document them.

The problem is... how to make big old trees unboring? I figured I'd ask you guys if you had any ideas for how to approach them so it's not just a "god, another tree, gtfo" shot.

Pics are of some of the trees in question, and are pretty goddamned shit.
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>> Mullenkedheim !ZD4Ay8nWso
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>> Chib
Sadly unless your audience knows the history there wont be much you able to do.
-I'd reccomend shooting them all around the same time of day.
-If possible try and get the tree in contect with something from modern day Japan (i.e the past and present)
-Shoot your photos and bundle them as a collection with the appropriate info/history in the back, allowing people to enjoy your photos but also learn more if they desire.

Thats all i've got for now, just woke up and need some beer. I'll be back around later
>> Mullenkedheim !ZD4Ay8nWso
>>168687
Yeah, I certainly plan on bundling them with information. Location, history, age, importance, shit like that. Some of them are at temples, there's the change that people would be there, and that could add to it. Some are in the middle of towns, so there could be a good chance for juxtaposition.

But most are out in the middle of nowhere, never visited, with no one around for miles and miles.
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
Try to check out this book of photos "The Tree" by Yasutaka Tanji. Amazing color large format work...

Don't get hung up on getting a wide shot of the entire tree. Find the tree's essence and distill it into a photo. Don't shoot the tree, shoot the spirit of the tree.
>> Mullenkedheim !ZD4Ay8nWso
>>168695
Cool, thanks! Couldn't find it at my local library... amazon japan claimed to not have it... other internet sites had it as an 'antique' book for $100. Then I searched by ISBN, and the amazon japan marketplace had a copy with a tattered dustcover for 430yen. should come next week. :D
>> heavyweather !4AIf7oXcbA
>>169171
Cool! You won't be disappointed. I just looked at my copy, and it's beaaaautiful!
>> Anonymous
S'not enough blue. Wait til 2am with a full moon. Also none of those white lights. Orange and blue and green. Interesting.