I was very happy to see the subject for the HiveBR Photo Contest of this week because I love trees.
Apart from the fact that trees are incredibly important for both the environment (and thus human well-being), they are also very beautiful.
The appearance of a tree changes throughout the year.
In summer, the leaves of most trees are fresh and green. In autumn, they turn into stunning shades of yellow, orange, and red before falling off and turning brown.
During winter, the tree remains bare until it comes back to life in spring. Some trees produce beautiful blossoms. I have a few trees in my backyard that are currently in full pink bloom which really looks nice.

But for this contest I've chosen trees that aren't very pretty themselves actually.
I've taken this photo back in 2005 on a vacation in Namibia. This was in the Deadvlei, a famous clay pan located in the Namib Desert. The dead trees are around 600–700 years old. The cracked dried clay ground and the dead trees make this a surrealistic image with the the blue sky and the orange dunes in the background Trees have been preserved this well due to the extremely dry climate.

It's quite an iconic photo. You can find a lot of them when you do a search online since it is a very touristic hotspot in Namibia. And hot it is. We had to go there before sunset because it becomes too hot later in the morning. It was lovely to see the sunrise from the famous Dune 45.

Here is a close up of one of the dead trees.

I'll fill up the rest of the post with some more photographs of trees because I really have a lot of them in my archive. I really enjoy walking in forests. It is really calming and you can shoot some nice photographs while you are there.

The following shot wasn't taken during a walk, but during a boat trip on the river. It was a beautiful sight when the sun went down in between the trees.

The sun shining through the trees during a walk in a forest. You can tell these trees are quite old by the size of them. They do not grow very wide in circumference but mainly grow in height.

Another curious thing I encountered in a forest was this couple of different trees that grew close to each other.

I'm ending this blog with a photograph I took last summer when we were in Spain. I came across this tree that had a traffic sign nailed onto it. But the tree was starting to eat the sign 😯
Well that's the power of nature, isn't it?

I hope you like this blog filled with trees. Thanks for stopping by!
Let me know what you think about my photos in the comments!

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