On Monday, DH & I ran around town enjoying a few light errands. Temperature-wise it was very mild, not all like late winter should be. Rain clouds were pushing into our area with the promise of thunderstorms developing during the night and they did.
I took this picture at Fort Loudon Lake in Farragut, Tennessee just outside of Knoxville. This outstretched tree hasn’t changed positions since we moved to the area and not until now did I see it with a photographic eye.
Envisioning this photo’s potential in B&W, I preserved the original aspects of my image and elected to photo edit at my imagination’s discretion.
Below are two new creations using the same photo changing them through the online photo-editor, Fotor.
The first one I applied the grayscale setting “Grey Popper”.
By removing the color, the stark monochrome images allow the onlooker to sense winter’s chill and the foreboding, approaching storm. Standing at the lake, while gazing at the contorted tree, I wondered how long it has been there and of all the stories it could share, if only it could talk.
Trees can’t talk, but God speaks through trees and through all things around us, as this tree lies in its winter dormant state, I’m reminded of these words from the Bible.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. ~Psalm 1:3 KJV
Do you stand relentlessly steadfast for something or someone or both?
What fruits do you bring forth for others to see?