A thread to show your appreciation for the Oxygen of our planet..
IMAGE COPYRIGHTLUCY COUGHLAN
image captionLucy Coughlan: "I went out early to capture the sunrise and the recent snow. The trees looked absolutely beautiful being backlit by the sun. I decided to use my lensball to add a different perspective to my photo."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTEVA NAMIK
image captionEva Namik: "Puddles are without great beauty but they can reflect the beauty of trees. A fresh and rainy walk on a Sunday with my partner."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTKATHY WILLIAMS
image captionKathy Williams: "Lanterns decorate the trees to celebrate Lunar New Year in Seoul, South Korea."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTNICK V BRIGGS
image captionNick V Briggs: "This beautiful-shaped tree was on the beach where we were staying on the Cook Islands. So simple, so memorable."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTCONOR DONNELLY
image captionConor Donnelly: "In Irish folklore a lone hawthorn tree or 'fairy tree' is often associated with mystical powers."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTPAUL GRANAHAN
image captionPaul Granahan: "This photo, taken in Hertfordshire, is a study of an oak tree branch showing the distinctive leaf shape and the remains of the flowers which will be replaced with acorns, the fruit of the oak tree containing a single seed."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTTHIERRY MEYRAT
image captionThierry Meyrat: "When walking in the southern coast of Tasmania in a preserved forest, these gigantic trees showed how delicate and harmonious is their canopy."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTJENNY DOWNING
image captionJenny Downing: "There's a row of majestic plane trees near where we used to live, prized by the townspeople for the shade they provide during the heat of the summer. I love their wonderfully tactile trunks, smooth, wrinkled and scaly and painted in camouflage colours."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTCHARLIE SCOTT
image captionCharlie Scott: "A sunny morning lockdown walk in Devon after a lot of rain."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTPETER KITANOV
image captionPeter Kitanov: "An old tree in winter at the Osogovo Mountain near Kyustendil, Bulgaria."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTLUCY LAUSSEN
image captionLucy Laussen: "Taken during a white-out skiing day in Japan on Hakuba 47 in 2019. Sitting above the trees you could only see a few metres in front of you, the dense white creating a hauntingly beautiful landscape."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTNATALIE YARROW
image captionNatalie Yarrow: "I was wandering through Mile End Park and was struck by these eye-like markings on some of the tree trunks. A completely natural repeating pattern all over the bark, branches were growing from the middle of each 'eye' and, where they had snapped off, a 'pupil' had been revealed. Each 'eye' was beautifully defined, with its own unique expression, almost as if drawn by a cartoonist. Lockdown is making me notice beauty in the smallest details, which I would have been too busy to appreciate before."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTHOWARD WHY
image captionHoward Why: "Trees are beautiful within as well as without as seen in this log pile in Charante, France."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTDOUG CARTER
image captionDoug Carter: "Beautiful tree colours along the St Lawrence river in Canada."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTKEITH BOSSARD
image captionKeith Bossard: "American Oak, taken during 2013 in Oatlands Park, Surrey."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTHANNAH REYNOLDS
image captionHannah Reynolds: "I spotted these beautiful twisted tree roots in Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Florida in 2019, back in the days of unrestricted travel."
IMAGE COPYRIGHTBALASANU IOAN
image captionBalasanu Ioan: "Sometimes it is best to see the how the world is connected, from the roots to the sky with the trees."