David Anthony Hall

You will find links to my traditional website under 'Additional pages' heading below. In the age of Social Media, Instagram & Blogs it's occurred to me that my website was so static that it had lost it's relevance so I've swapped my homepage for a Blog! ...

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My sleep patterns are still a little disrupted so here’s a pic for all my new American friends. Redwood State Park #treeporn #SonyAlpha #RedwoodNP

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World’s Smallest Gallery by David Anthony Hall.

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From my tumblr archive

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Another outtake from ‘Winter Light’ #MOVE2015 checkout the Zoomable image & create ur own. http://www.senezio.com/David-Anthony-Hall/Winter_Light.html

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Tree Porn by David Anthony Hall: 

“It turns out I’m a tree pornographer! Well, at least according to Hannah at the ‘tree porn’ blog which outted me a couple of years ago. So I’ve done some research and I’m glad to say I’m safely on the soft-core end of the scale. The technical term is arborphilia and is described as having a special fondness for trees (soft core) The hard core end of the scale is referred to as dendrophilia which is sexual attraction to trees, often leading to sexual intercourse, often referred to among deviants as “going green”. This includes attraction to both gymnosperms and angiosperms. Some arborphiles are also attracted to bryophytes; however, this symptom is less frequent. Oftentimes, an arborphile will claim saplings as his or her own offspring. Arborphiles gave rise to the phrase “morning wood,” and can be observed in their natural habitat of national parks during nocturnal flights of fancy. This has to be my favourite forest in Ireland, on a recent visit the light wasn’t suited to photography so I shot some video instead. I try to visit as often as I can regardless of the weather or season.”

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Day 15

I spent the day being shown around by locals. I was only taking recce shots this one on the Sony a7R #SonyAlpha handheld in Olympic National Forest on an overcast day still with amazing results.

1/80 sec @ f5.6

ISO 500

24mm FE 16-35

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Day 6

Sequoia National Park #SonyAlpha a7r 

1/500 sec @ f4

ISO 400

FE 55mm f1.8 ZA

Sony Alpha a7r

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Likey no Likey?

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Day 4 

Sequoia Nation Park

SonyAlpha a7R

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Another from my West Coast adventure with #SonyAlpha & #treeporn

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Redwood National Park #treeporn #SonyAlpha #RedwoodNP

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A trip down memory lane, I’ve been looking through an box of old negs dating back to the 80’s this scan of a contact sheet from when I was in Art School is one of the first times I set out to shoot some ‪#‎TREEPORN‬ although it wasn’t called #treeporn back in them days. Shot on a Pentax 6x7” on Ilford FP4 in the Dublin mountains.

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Finalising Blog post including video of new work for upcoming solo show:

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#treeporn from last weeks travels.

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Sony a7S #SonyAlpha

1/4000 sec @ f11 ISO 12800 35mm FE 16-35 f4 ZA OSS

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Day’s gone by #treeporn

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Spent my day amongst Giants these trees are truly monumental with a prehistoric energy to them. (at National Park Yosemite)

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Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill is a memorial place for both Māori & other New Zealanders. #revengetreeporn

“One Tree Hill” in Auckland first became “None Tree Hill” in 1852, in an act of vandalism or for firewood by a white settler.

More trees were planted in the 1870s to replace the previous tree along with some native trees. But only two pines, originally part of a shelter belt for the native trees, surviving for long. However, in 1960, one of them was felled in another attack, possibly for firewood.

The remaining tree was later attacked twice with chainsaws by Māori activists. The first attack happened on 28 October 1994, two months before I took this picture. A second attack on 5 October 2000 proved fatal.