The gesture here is the crook in the aspen trunk. I recently read an ebook encouraging us to use a square format more often. So I have been playing with that.
Although I have tons of photographs from my workshop, this is it for now; I will bring them out sparingly from time to time.
@Farnaaz: You honor me. He was a great poet and painter. He sometimes has been compared to e.e. cummings, a favorite poet of mine. He also was a mystic as am I. In fact, photography is a very mystical activity for me.
@Phil David Morris 2011: Many thanks. Ah yes, pre-SLR; 35mm didn't exist.