I have photographed this beautiful old tree in all four seasons, at various times of day. For this particular image, I combined my original photograph with a Gausian Blur version in Adobe Photoshop CS4 (to give a softer feel to the image). The tree is in Marquand Park, in Princeton, New jersey.

By Joshua Friedman

• CAMERA: Canon EOS 7D
• FOCAL LENGTH: 25 mm
• SHUTTER SPEED: 1.3 seconds
• LENS: Canon 18-135 mm zoom
• ISO: 100
• APERTURE (F-STOP): f/25