Artists for the weekend of August 12-13: Photographers in appreciation of trees

A Walk in the Woods, A Photo Appreciation of Trees!

A Buddha head entwined within the roots of a tree in the ruins of the ancient city of Ayutthaya, Thailand
Photo © Jorge Silva / Reuters

An aerial view of a forest in South Sumatra province, Indonesia.
Photo © Beawiharta / Reuters

Hannah Brown and fellow activists demonstrate against the planned clear-cutting of trees outlined in the East Bay Deforestation Plan on the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Photo © Noah Berger / Reuters

A couple stops to take a picture of the autumn colors at Loch Faskally,  Pitlochry, Scotland.
Photo © Jeff J Mitchell / Getty

Prized for its red medicinal sap, the Dragon's Blood is the most striking of 900 plant species on the Socotra islands in the Arabian Sea, 380 km (238 miles) south of mainland Yemen.
Photo © Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters

Sambor Prei Kuk, or "the temple in the richness of the forest" an archaeological site of ancient Ishanapura, is seen after being listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia.
Photo © Pring Samrang / Reuters

Light from the Federal Corrections Complex casts beams through fog in Butner, North Carolina. Photo © Jonathan Drake / Reuters

Stone crosses marking the graves of German soldiers, overtaken by time and and the growing trunk of a tree in Hooglede German Military Cemetery. Hooglede, Belgium.
Photo © Christopher Furlong / Getty

 A tree grows among several thousand tons of used tires piled in an abandoned installation for recycling in Lachapelle-Auzac, France.
Photo © Eric Cabanis / AFP / Getty

Trees grow through the windshield of a 1937 Chrysler Imperial as it sits at Old Car City, the world's largest known classic car junkyard, White, Georgia.
Photo © David Goldman / AP

Members of the public enjoy a Christmas Tree Maze in Edinburgh,Scotland.
Photo © Jeff J Mitchell / Getty

Anna Endsley enters the Guadalupe River via a rope swing in Gruene, Texas.
Photo © Eric Gay / AP

A girl walks on a disused railway track, through what is known locally as the "Tunnel of Love", in small town Kleven some 350km (217 miles) off western Kiev.
Photo © Gleb Granich / Reuters

A tree's roots grow along cracks between bricks in Hong Kong.
Photo © CC BY-SA Clément Bucco-Lechat

Local youngsters run through a forest covered in bluebells near Marlborough in southern England.
Photo © Toby Melville / Reuters

Buddha-shaped pears grow on the trees at an orchard in Weixian county, north China's Hebei province. Hao Xianzhang, a local fruit farmer, spent six years to perfect the process by growing the pears inside molds.
Photo © AFP / Getty

A treehouse at the Lupe Sina Treesort Hotel in Apia, Samoa.
Photo © Mark Kolbe / Getty

A man takes a picture with his mobile phone through heavy snow in the Dark Hedges in Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Photo © Charles McQuillan / Getty

Visitors take pictures of leaves falling from an old ginkgo tree in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. Photo © Reuters

Petit Canal, in the French overseas island of Guadeloupe, shows an old slave prison where the roots of a cursed fig tree have taken over the place.
Photo © Nicolas Derne / AFP / Getty

The mansion at Oak Alley Plantation, seen through a canopy of live oak trees along the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana.
Photo © Tim Graham / Getty

An aerial view shows a tree with white branches in the Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso state, western Brazil.
Photo © Paulo Whitaker / Reuters

This tree was dubbed one of most terrifying trees in Britain as it appears to dribble slime from its gaping mouth. looks like nature's very own version of Edvard Munch's classic Scream painting.
Photo © David Garnham / Newsteam / NTI / Getty

Trees grow over parts of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall of China.
Photo © Damir Sagolj / Reuters

Snow-covered pine trees sit in flood water near Moorhead, Minnesota.
Photo © Scott Olson / Getty

Sparks fly from a hollowed tree burning within, during the Powerhouse fire near Lake Hughes, California.
Photo © David McNew / Getty

Trees and roots invade Ta Prohm temple in Angkor, Cambodia. Ta Prohm is a temple built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara.
Photo © Lucas Schifres / Getty

Aerial view of a forest area consumed by a massive fire and now being sowed by dogs in Talca,  Chile.
Photo © Martin Bernetti / AFP / Getty

A girl walks past a tree covered in spider webs in a flood affected area of K.N. Shah, in Pakistan's Sindh province. The cocooned trees have been a side-effect of spiders escaping flood waters in the area.
Photo © Department for International Development / Russell Watkins / Reuters

Views of Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Photo © Rob Ball / Getty

A tree trunk which looks like spider web grows in a park in Nanning, Guangxi, China.
Photo © TPG / Getty

An environmental activist climbs between trees in a camp of protesters demonstrating against the clearing of a huge wood area for a new runway for the airport in Frankfurt, Germany.
Photo © Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters

People standing on the "Baum und Zeit" ("Tree and Time") elevated platform look from tree-top height down at the ruins of the Beelitzer Heilstaetten sanatorium in Beelitz, Germany.
Photo © Sean Gallup / Getty

Madagascar, Morondava, Baobab Alley, a view of a Grandidier's baobab tree and a man working in the field.
Photo © Anthony Asael / Art in All of Us / Getty

Two Polish school boys play in a pile of leaves in a park in central Warsaw.
Photo © Peter Andrews / Reuters