Customer Reviews

Among Trees

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The photos are very nice and there is a wide variety of trees and climates represented: Hawaii, Wyoming (4 photos), Italy (2 photos), England, Greece, Spain, New York, and Louisiana. The photos are black and white. The calendar is 12"X12" which is a little large for trying to reship to others if you're buying it for gifts.

I agree with the review written by W. Upchurch.
This collection of images gives personality and life to trees. Without the distraction of colour, the texture and shape shine through and, if you let it, one can feel the environment in which the trees live.

What disappoints me is that the previous reviews fail to deal with what this book was intended to be; to quote from the description, "Because this book is not simply about seeing pictures of interesting trees, it is about shifting our minds and awareness to experience the world and ourselves differently. For all the variety of trees, the book is really about the experience of being in among them."
To be fair, reviews and votes have become an inadequate method of evaluating whether to own/read/digest a book; the process of writing a review takes us out of our full sensory experience and back into a purely analytical exercise. That said, I have found that, while some of Sean Kernan's photos are immediately "gettable", some will only be fully appreciated by spending more than a glance with them. One of the main strengths of great photographs is that they take a thing out of time, and by isolating it, give one the chance to take time with it. If one allows ones eyes, without expectations, to "wander in among" the tones of these images, there Are rewards.
Sean's work over the years has been about the process of seeing, more than about the process of making popular pictures; most have come away from workshops he has helmed with a new sensitivity to both their world and new ways their own photography can "work". Knowing this, maybe you'll look for what this book is about than for what it isn't.
If you can't be bothered, all I can suggest is that you go walking among the trees where you live... that's what Sean would wish for you, anyway.
Carry your camera, if you want.

The photos are good, but beyond a note of the place taken, there are no words of explanation. After Thomas Pakenham's 'Remarkable Trees' this disappoints.

Every month's picture is absolutely beautiful and has the country the picture was taken in at the bottom left of each one.
Love it and love the pictures!

We've bought Ansel Adams calendars for years, but didn't feel like spending that much this year. Instead we bought this one. My wife is using it in the kitchen and is extremely happy with it. Plenty of room to record activities for the family and the pictures are beautiful.

This is a quality calendar. The pages don't sag in the corners when you have it hanging on the wall and the pictures are georgeous!! Second year in a row...

This is a beautifully presented, artistic collection of photo-portraits of interesting trees. Sean Kernan has really captured the mood of the trees and woods that he portrays so well.
However, the recipient of the calendar, as is often the case, is not an artist. In this case my wife, for whom the calendar was a Christmas present, was rather disappointed because it is not in color.
Andrew Slack

Not a bad bad artistic vision of nature. it you judge it for what it is rather than what it is not, It's pretty good. Not bad for the price either.