These trees that stand alone in the Eastern Shore fields are perfect candidates for Tintype portraiture. I used the same wooden 8 X 10 Camera and 1864 Voightlander Petzval portrait lens as I did for the Indian portraits in “Catching Shadows”

The exposures would be about 20 seconds.  Inevitably, the leaves would catch a little breeze although, to me, the mornings would seem completely still. The blur of the moving leaves contrast with the upright, stillness of the trunk.