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If you are a horror movie buff, you've certainly noticed the liberal use of trees to set the mood. Halloween is hardly complete without the image of a moon-lit and fog-laden tree. However, some trees have been molded by Mother Nature into specters of their own. Scary, frightening, or downright weird, the trees we've amassed in this collection will leave you wondering if Mother Nature herself digested some magic mushrooms.
1. This terrifying screaming tree was captured in Hither Hills State Park, Montauk, New York.
2. A Medusa-like tree.
3. An alligator eye caught on the bark of a tree.
4. Haunting face imprinted on a tree.
5. Smacked by a shovel: a face only a mother could love.
6. Look closely and you'll see a smiling face.
7. Insert limbs here at own your own peril.
8. As if pollution weren't enough, some cruel person actually burned this figure into a tree.
9. This is what it looks like when a tree is screaming.
10. The mummy is back in a new installment – the tree mummy!
11. As part of a larger series, here is a "tree face."
12. A massive giant supports its branches...
13. Cousin It? Dead poodle? No, a grass tree in the Brisbane Ranges National Park.
1. The Howling Banshee – taken by Paludiario, this ethereal picture is awesome and one of the best we have seen.
2. This flaming fig tree is illuminated by the sun, as it begins to rise.
3. This fig tree has decided to literally devour some iron railings.
4. Tree blues – the color of the sky gives the tree this blue glow.
5. When there's no room up, trees branch out horizontally, such as the following, caught on camera at the river Dart at Holne.
6. A hungry tree feasting on a rock.
7. A tree elucidated by the glow of the moon.
8. If trees could express sadness, this beached tree would probably tell an entire story.
9. The archetypal tree found in cheap horror flicks.
10. Photoshopped "Pan's Labyrinth" style-tree in daylight – intricate symmetries in the forest.
11. Certainly the most "twisted" tree in the collection.
1. Nature has a message for us!
2. Entitled Elephant's Ass, the following tree has a message for all you illegal loggers.
3. Reclaimed by Nature – a true testament to human fertilizer.
4. Hey... Tree, what you hidin' in there?
5. Tree directing traffic somewhere in Rhinebeck, NY.
6. Tree conveniently moving its shadow towards the bench.
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27 comments
Eva G. (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 2am
Fantastic! This will make tree huggers everywhere think twice!
Justin Tootrip (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 3am
What an excellent compilation of photographs! I love the tree giving the finger one, that is priceless!
Mark (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 5am
I suppose everyone reading this blog knows where "river Dart at Holne" is located.
Not.
You must believe that only people in your country are reading your blog.
Mickey (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 6am
Very kool photos. Brings out the imagination. Thanks!
LSuply (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 10am
Nice compilation. French forests also have their own weird trees
Hallvard (not verified) says:
Jul 18th, 2008 at 11am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fark/2487188807/
A tree on the run!
Ravon (not verified) says:
Jul 20th, 2008 at 7am
Cool photos! Wish I could see these trees in person.
wee (not verified) says:
Jul 21st, 2008 at 2pm
Monkey Tree in Singapore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_tree_phenomenon
TRISTAN (not verified) says:
Jul 21st, 2008 at 4pm
Trees can express sadness, we just can't or won't acknowledge it.
ThinkPositive (not verified) says:
Jul 21st, 2008 at 9pm
Some amazing trees there. Certain people really hate trees and find any wild nature to be spooky - such as those who most enjoy city life.
Oliver Dodd (not verified) says:
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 12am
Here's another from a beach close to the one where I took the picture under Tormented Tree #8:
Dan (not verified) says:
Nov 29th, 2008 at 9pm
These are some really interesting tree images! Great work!
franyule says:
Jan 11th, 2009 at 4am
Mark...there's this software called Google Maps...use it! And these are amazing shots....thanks
Baktash Hotak (not verified) says:
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 10am
mashallah..it all shows the power of allah that allah can do anythinG and can meak anythinG so dont forget that one day we will death .....
Rick (not verified) says:
May 13th, 2009 at 1am
@ baktash
Jesus pwns allah GTFO, if you dont one day i will death you. LOL
Sherwood Botsford (not verified) says:
Sep 27th, 2009 at 6pm
The fig tree isn't illuminated by the sun. The background sky looks to me like an hour after sunset/before sunrise. If the sun is below the horizon in the background, then what is glowing off the tree?
Given the sharpness of the shadow line in foreground, I suspect it is illuminated by a sodium vapour (yellow/orange) street light.
Or it was taken at another time of day and photoshopped.
Elizabeth (not verified) says:
This is an awesome compilation of photos. I was recently in Vancouver and in Stanley Park there is a suburb tree.