black and white photography

I saw this tree while hiking in the Steens Mountain Wilderness on Southeast Oregon and I thought could be something interesting. I chose to lay almost flat on the ground so I could keep converging lines to a minimum. [Cellphone capture]

Greetings from somewhere on the West Coast of the United States. I picked by my first camera...Kodak Brownie 127 (style?)....about 1966ish and I fell in love with photography as funds allowed. I ran through the gambit of 126 Instamatic and 110 pocket cameras before picking my my first SLR in...