Bark!

[Frank Fremerey]

bark as in a tree's skin

[ColinM]

Lovely Frank.
Excuse my ignorance but have some of these been carved or worked on?

[Frank Fremerey]

This is part of the Botanical Garden Series in another thread
3 bark pictures are palm trees. As far as I understand palms
grow by leaves turning to wood and falling off. In this case the
gardeners seem to have helped by cutting or sawing some parts off.

[Frank Fremerey]

Technical: all AF-S 1.8/50mm most @f=1.8 Nikon D600 Edited for depth in Photo Ninja on my uncalibrated notebook. No crop 

[armando_m]

I really like the texture in #2

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you armando. Take a look at the Botanical Garden series too.

[rosko]

I like the first one. Just shame you didn't focus on the horseshoe shaped area.

I think you'd have obtained more sharpness stopping down @f/4-f/5.6 on pic #2 and #3, as the background doesn't matter.

But that could be my monitor.

Francis.

[Frank Fremerey]

I will post 100% crops as soon as I am home. Wide open gives a certain dreaminess to the shots

I chose dreaminess over definition.

[elsa hoffmann]

I will post 100% crops as soon as I am home. Wide open gives a certain dreaminess to the shots

I chose dreaminess over definition.

okey I was wondering about too - thanks for clarifying

[rosko]

I chose dreaminess over definition.

Frank, I totally respect your choice, as, most of us including me, have this tendency to produce sharp images.

[Frank Fremerey]

There must at least be one part of razor sharp defintion in my pictures and there is. Wait for the crops.

[Frank Fremerey]

100%