green tree

This tree is not that special in itself, although its careful pruning to a pleasing shape caught my eye. It’s a special photo mainly because this tree is growing just outside a hotel in Guangzhou that’s very special to me and my family. I like the contrast in the photograph between the exaggerated ‘naturalness’ of the bonsai-style tree (it’s about 2 metres tall), and the geometric wall behind it. I did some fine rotation of the image to align the grid on the wall with the edges of the photograph, and slightly increased the colour saturation.