In May 2011, a friend and I took our cameras to the property of a mutual friend. We simply wandered in the woods taking pictures. I have often found myself, as is evidenced by some other images in our Etsy Shop “AbbasImages,” being near a tree or group of trees and just looking up. I couldn’t tell you why, really, but I’m drawn to consider the height and grandeur of trees in that moment and consider the forces it or they had to overcome to reach into the sky the way they do; and then to sustain and endure season after season. Inspiring.