One Dead Tree (20 photos)
It's a familiar tale you hear all the time. What starts out as an accident turns into something amazing. So it was for Kevin Day, a graphic designer who's created a beautiful and moving story about one dead tree. For over five years now, Day has been photographing the same tree on different days, through different seasons and in different lighting conditions. His most popular shot was taken one very early morning on August 18, 2005. He reminisces, it was "when the sun rose directly behind the tree from my best viewpoint and the early morning mist lingered and the dissipated at just the right moment, I couldn't take shots quick enough, the light was changing by the second and I could feel myself actually getting emotional and excited by taking photos of a dead tree!" The unretouched photo, with the sun peeking through the tree's core, became his inspiration. With most of the work done by the sun and the mist, it was the photo that convinced Day that he had to make a set.
Another one of his most popular photos he calls African Sunset. Viewed an astounding 29,000 times, the photo looks like it could have been taken on an African savannah, rather than on a nondescript park in Berkshire, UK.
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