Let's honour the tree
A tree, a wet intersection, a gas station. Somehow not much to see in the picture above - and yet so much.
I took this photo in Beeskow, a little town in the federal state of Brandenburg, on a hiking tour at the beginning of this year. I very like it.
The tree defiantly stands alone at the crossroads amid a man-made world. Reminding us that the world around it would not exist without the tree. The tar of the street, the gas station in the background (which moves unconsciously to the picture's foreground because of the artificial light) - if there were no trees (or other plant growth), there would be no oil, there would be neither the road nor the gas station.
The tree as the beginning of everything, so to speak, but somehow lost here in the picture. As if the tree doesn't fit into this world anymore. A metaphor for today’s world?
Strolling greetings,
Johannes Eber