"Cousin" of Peter Boehringer's oaks, a photo from Portalegre, South

Photographer's Note

Maybe my friend and TE member Peter Boehringer shouldn't have fed my ego so much in his post of the American cousin of this tree, as I have a fascination for this kind of tree and a bunch of photos featuring them and now I got an even stronger motivation for posting some of them, risking to become the guy of those boring strange twisted trees. :D

I would prefer posting one with the whole tree, but I am too tired to select and prepare another one and this one was already on post queue.

This is one of the rare ocasions that I login into TE practically only to post a photo, but I am quite uninspired today for writing critiques and I only hope you forgive me this time.

Not counting the landscapes where they appear also, this is my fifth post of a cork oak and the second of this particular tree. You can see the others posts on this theme of mine. On the this other post you can find more detailed notes on the tree and its economic importance.

Shot on a cold sunny day near P� da Serra, a village of the concelho (county?) of Nisa.

Links to Wikipedia: Nisa, Cork Oak, Cork.

stano, maltese, blankar, pboehringer, cuneyt-sb, cobbydale, zeca, paura has marked this note useful

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stano (15) 2007-01-31 1:37

Hi Jose,
nice photo, interesting tree. I like trees and I look on trees as living entities, how they are nice. May be the mankind understand now or in near future we only hurt this beings and nothing give them, if and until will live the trees we will live, not smoke-stacks or exhaust-pipes. Don磘 worry,Jose, about people who love money and hate nature and people.
Best wishes
Stano

jackart (6702) 2007-01-31 2:47

Hi Jose!

Very nice photo. Good showed structure of the tree. Beautiful evening light with strong shadows

Regards
Jacek

leonorkuhn (16237) 2007-01-31 9:41

Ol� Jos�,

� uma 醨vore muito bonita e 鷗il, fazendo amigos em todos os continentes! Bela homenagem rec韕roca. Uma imagem com cores, luminosidade e nitidez excelentes.
Parab閚s!
Um abra鏾 do Brasil
Leonor

maltese (22909) 2007-01-31 12:40

Hello Jos�
tr鑣 belle composition autour de ce ch鑞e li鑗e, les couleurs sont superbes, c'est tr鑣 bien r閍lis�.
F閘icitation pour ton hommage
Amicalement
Herv�

blankar (809) 2007-01-31 14:59

Hi Jose,
It's such an interesting tree... Looks almost man-made as the trunk not matching in texture and color with the rest of the brunches...
Regards,
Blanka

pboehringer (770) 2007-01-31 15:52

Hi Jose, nice to see some continuity here on the oak tree theme :-)
In my city we also have cork oaks but only for esthetic reasons. No one ever bothered to harvest the cork. So, your post is actually an educational for me. I never saw a nude tree before ... The light on the leaves and trunk is very warm.
Regards, Peter

fanch (0) 2007-01-31 17:21

Hello Jose ,

So you do have a "post queue" ? what a bit of luck !!! I do not feel bored about your trees , and you do know now the french word for it ( ch阯e li鑗e ..)
And in the end , i think it makes a fine photo !

Amiti鑣 ,

cuneyt-sb (6576) 2007-02-01 17:34

Hi Jose
I like the vivid colors and the balanced composition here
I like your framing also, lights under control and colors great
TFS , Regards

MIG13 (0) 2007-02-01 23:31

Os contrastes de cor e de luz s鉶 o ponto alto dessa foto, Jos�, al閙 do recorte dado por vc e das formas irregulares da 醨vore. Bom trabalho, amigo! Abra鏾! Miguel.

cobbydale (1958) 2007-02-02 15:02

Great colours Jos�, and you have captured the features and textures of the tree well (it's not a tree I am familiar with where I live!)
TFS. Leon.

UnTrained (0) 2007-02-03 9:24

Ol� Jos�,
nice colors on this part of the tree. You managed to get the depth by an impression of light and shadow on the leaves.
Cheers, Ulf

capthaddock (28790) 2007-02-03 15:46

Hi Jose - nioce mix of red and blue, from this perspective, the colours are actually equally "Australian outback" as they are Californian or alentejan.

jmcl (14535) 2007-02-05 0:51

Hi Jose,

the red of that tree where it sharply meets the blue sky is just amazing .. love the beautiful light ... what stories this tree could tell ..

take care,

John

jwright (260) 2007-02-05 19:42

Very sharp photo with good color. Never seen a tree like that here in Kentucky. Sun brings out all the detail in the photo. Well done.

zeca (19762) 2007-02-07 22:29

Hola Jos�!
Belas texturas e formas nesta 醨vore de estrutura t鉶 interessante!
Abra鏾,
Zeca

emilbo (22616) 2007-02-11 11:42

Ola Jose!
Excellente composition de ce vieux ch鑞e. Les couleurs chaudes sont magtnifiques et j'aime beaucoup les grosses branches tortueuses.
Tu peux m'閏rire des critiques en Portugais.
F閘icitations!... et bonne semaine,
Um abraco do Canada,
Emilius

sergio1 (12152) 2007-02-13 8:44

Hola Jose

Una simple captura pero llena de grafismo. Me gusta calidez de la luz reflejado en el tronco y la apretada composicion.

Un buen trabajo
Sergio

Bluejeans (64251) 2007-02-13 15:55

Ola Jose muito bonito o teu sobreiro , a foto ficou com uma bonita defini玢o e as cores est鉶 muito bonitas , e uma arvore muito importante para o nosso pais!!!
Um abra鏾 Gon鏰lo

jmdias (116663) 2007-05-16 20:48

JP

sempre tive vontade de tirar uma foto de um sobreiro rec閙-cortado mas nunca o fiz, quem sabe ser� de uma outra visita ao velho PTGL. Bela foto, o desnudo da corti鏰 retirada em contraste com a parte protegida, a ramagem, o c閡. Muito boa

Jorge

danyy (0) 2007-07-26 15:32

Bonjour Jos�,
tr鑣 bien choisi cet arbre.
Il est curieux et pr閟ente de l'int閞阾.
Tu as bien fait de la poster, une errur de la nature mais tr鑣 belle erreur.
Bien � toi.
Daniel.

paura (25802) 2008-02-27 15:46

J.Pires,
Parece que hoje estamos a olhar 醨vores, n�? Ess aqui me parece muito doida, completamente desajuizada em termos m髍ficos.

Abra鏾

Paulo

Photo Information

Copyright: Jose Pires (stego) (24132)
Genre: 风景
Medium: 彩色
Date Taken: 2006-12-10
Categories: 自然
Camera: Olympus E-300, 14-45 mm Zuiko Digital
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/90 seconds
More Photo Info: view
Map: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Tree/Arbres, !Norte Alentejano, Trees, only trees ... [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-01-30 23:23