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Jeremy Green “Symmetree” 1/25/25

In my neighborhood this huge oak tree’s canopy touches the ground all the way around, like a big green oak leaf tent. Inside the canopy was a good place to use an ultra-wide (10mm) lens. Although the tree’s natural symmetry in the resultant photograph was pretty nice, I tried flopping one side of the image over just to see what it would look like. With that, the animal appeared. A bear or a big cat? With just a little shading here and there as well as some other digital darkroom magic, it took on a Hindu spirit/god-like appearance. It’s my spirit animal symmetree.