BARK

Another favorite place to visit with a camera is the bristlecone forest in the White mountains of California.  Rather than whole portraits of these ancient giants, I recently became more interested in the compositions to be found under their skin, or bark.  Here one can see the struggles of growth and the scars the climate has inflicted over their eons of life.  I have now expanded this study to the exposed sinews of lodgepole and white pines.