Here's a few photos...

And this beauty, which I discovered near Acme, Wa. Itmight be the new state champion silver maple....It is 23.5 feet in circumference, and is as wide as 120 feet, but only 65-80 feet tall.

This grand tree is a state champion Northern Catalpa on the Ole Miss campus. The national champion Southern Catalpa is only about 20 miles from here but it's not as photogenic as this one. Because of the location you can't get far enough away from the tree to get it all in the _frame_, so I panned the camera with a normal wide-angle lens to get 4 photos of different parts of the tree and stitched them together in Photoshop.

Great job on the photos rbtree and Blakes Hitch.

On a recent visit to Portland, Oregon I saw some massive Catalpa growing on the strip between the street and sidewalk. Absolutely humungous, never seen anything like it in the northeast, had no idea they could grow that tall and wide. Then again all the eastern species I saw in the Pacific Northwest were growing larger than most of what we have, even the leaves are bigger on familiar species like Red Oak which caused me to do a double take. It's great tree growing climate out there.

rbtree do you know what kind of spruce (?) those are on the side of the snow-covered mountain? Great photo. Nice light in your Ginko and other photos.

Blakes hitch, good job stitching together the Catalpa image. Are you using a zoom or prime wide-angle? That's assuming a digital SLR, you may be shooting with a point and shoot digital. I need to go wider than what I have to photograph trees and people climbing. Get's very pricey for the good glass in this category.
-moss

Moss,
The catalpa shots were captured with a 28mm lens on a full-_frame_ DSLR. PhotoMerge did all the work.

I've also experimented with a 15mm full-_frame_ fisheye lens which can get an entire tree in the _frame_ even up close but distorts the image. The PhotoShop plug-in Fisheye Hemi does a great job of removing the distortion.

Ah yes, a full _frame_ DSLR is a good thing for tree photography. Not in the cards for the near future but what I'll have to move to it eventually.

15mm on a full _frame_ image sensor sounds extreme but fun
-moss