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A Japanese Maple from three viewpoints. One can see the framing effect of a monochromatic background behind a singular tree, when one looks frontally at this tree from the street. In images of trees, branches often get lost in what is behind them. When we walk around a tree in person, these branches we see easily.

This is the time of year to look more intentionally at the structure of a deciduous tree: trunk, bark, branches, twigs.

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