Friday, September 13, 2024

Baobab profiles

Back in the Picture Collection at NYPL Little Prince. I've decided to make my way through all the Trees folders, but go as far only as Banana, Banyan and Baobab. More about the prodigious banyan soon. For now, some fruit of the baobab - enough to show that some photographers seek trees (and framings) that make the baobab's look as little like other trees as possible, while others, perhaps in response, show them looking very much like conventional deciduous trees. While some looked almost like the threatening baobabs of The Little Prince, one quite impressively managed to create a scene reminiscent of Caspar David Friedrich!