#ghost trees

[miscjazz]

[mossandfog]

Ellen Jantzen's Ethereal Forest Ghosts

Ellen Jantzen is a skilled visual artist with a superb portfolio showcasing her photo montage and manipulation work. We love her series called Disturbing the Spirits, seeing forests and trees turned into ghostlike forces. The stretched and smoothed effect makes an ordinary stand of trees look like something much more ethereal and haunting. There’s also a sublime peacefulness to the images, we…

Ellen Jantzen's Ethereal Forest Ghosts

[notebook-cc-blog]

Ghostly trees.

[tomhordy]

Frans Lanting, Ghost Trees

This is not a painting, but a photograph of trees with sand dunes in the background.

[birdsoldier]

[genxmusings-blog]

Ever since encountering the ghost trees of Namibia in a photograph exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, I was mesmerized by this enchanting landscape. I couldn't believe these were unretouched photographs. I am still lost in them and found myself starting at them, completely lost in their beauty and desolation. Their explanation is such: (per SLATE.com) Among the towering red dunes of Namib-Naukluft National Park in the central Namib Desert is an area known as Sossusvlei. It is a strange and alien landscape. The rich red dunes that surround the area owe their hue to age -- over thousands of years, the sand has literally rusted.

[brandomonk]

[blackfilmed]

by EmilyJHansell

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ihatemyweaknesses/34376540641