Inspiration In Trees
In the course of some other research today I came across this image from the Yale University Art Gallery. Evidently Monet was influenced by this photographer’s work and I can see it — the luminous quality of this photograph. I’ve been obsessed with trees recently — I devoured The Wild Trees by Richard Preston. It is a non-fiction book about the life of redwood trees. I highly, highly recommend it.
The Forest at Fontainebleau
ca. 1855
Gustave Le Gray
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October 14th, 2008 17:53
I’m a little bit obsessed with trees too. I want to cover a sofa in the Marimekko tree fabric - I love that. I love pictures of tress, but in real life I don’t spend that much time looking at them.
October 14th, 2008 18:39
OOh this looks delicious! Great book recommendation Abbey, I look forward to adding it to the ever-growing list.
By the way, I tagged you on my blog!
October 14th, 2008 20:37
I’m in Maine right now enjoying the incredible trees here. Peak season, for sure!
October 14th, 2008 20:43
I love that you’re immersing yourself in trees, Abbey!
October 15th, 2008 03:03
I read Preston’s excerpt in the New Yorker and bought that book for my dad - it’s absolutely amazing.
(and I love love LOVE gustave le gray … his photos are sublime.)
October 22nd, 2008 01:00
[...] been reading up a storm lately and there is nothing like a good book (especially in the fall, when its cold out and [...]
October 31st, 2008 13:27
If you enjoyed reading The Wild Trees, you might enjoy seeing the trees.
Most copies, if not all copies, have no photographs at all.
Here are a lot of the trees, and more:
http://www.mdvaden.com/grove_of_titans.shtml
That’s the actual groves written about in the book, not just redwoods in general. Although, I did put some basic redwood photos in the Album #1 as well.
Note the tallest redwoods link there - it has the latest tallest redwoods info from Michael Taylor, updated to Oct. 29, 2008.
Cheers,
M. D. Vaden