James Newman
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This beautiful specimen is located in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, TX. It has become one of my favorite places for photography lately. This is another HDR attempt that I did yesterday morning, early, right before another of our wild thunderstorms boomed through the area. I was told the tree is over 200 years old but I am trying to confirm that. The original images show all of the steel cables that they had to string up to keep the long, heavy branches from breaking. I used healing tool in PS to get them out of the picture. It's a huge tree and my space was limited so there was no way for me, with my equipment, to get a shot showing more of the massive beauty. I used my Nikon D40 and the 18-55mm kit lens that came with it. The cemetery, by the way, is very old and storied with many "famous" people being buried there. Howard Hughes and his parents are buried there so I threw in a photo of their site just for you that might be interested. James