A very old tree in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, east of Big Pine, California, April, 1998.

Taken with a Minolta XG-M and the 50mm f1.7 lens on Ektachrome 100, scanned on a Polaroid SprintScan 35+, then cleanup and cropping in Photoshop CS4, with exposure, saturation, levels, highlights, shadows, and color adjustments in Aperture.