Photography On Location: The Twin Trees

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Hey I'm back! Yessir, I'm finally gettin' back to this TH-cam stuff. And boy do I have a doozy of a video for you. It's got adventure, it's got drama, it's got...some trees that look like they have 2 trunks.
Back in my day we'd call them Siamese trees. But that was way back in aught-two. It was a different time and we didn't know any better. We had no idea the emotional damage we were inflicting on trees like this. But progress is progress, and now they are rightfully called "conjoined trees." We also call the smaller ones "little trees" now.
When I saw these trees in the nearby town of Monrovia, I knew immediately I wanted to photograph them. What I didn't know is that I'd end up photographing them with both 4x5 large format and 6x17 panoramic on Kodak Portra 160 film. I also didn't think I'd be doing it on Easter Sunday. But hey, life is crazy like that. You just never know what kind of curveballs the great magnet in the sky is going to throw at you, amirite? One day you're sitting around thinking about what to do tomorrow for Easter and the next day you're taking pictures. Gosh. Really makes you think, huh? Haha boy we have a good time here don't we?
I always do this. The description for the video starts off somewhat on-subject and then it just deteriorates to the ramblings of a madman doing a bad impression of Morty.
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