The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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8.00" x 5.50"
Overall:
10.00" x 7.50"
Founders Oak Poster
by Jon Burch Photography
Product Details
Founders Oak poster by Jon Burch Photography. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
Design Details
This tree began as a seedling in a major campsite of central Texas Indians 13,000 years ago. Early settlers told of Indians leaving messages to... more
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Comments (9)
Artist's Description
This tree began as a seedling in a major campsite of central Texas Indians 13,000 years ago. Early settlers told of Indians leaving messages to others who would follow by weighing down the upper stem of young trees horizontally to indicate their direction of travel. Such distortion from the vertical may be evident in this tree called Founders Oak in New Braunfels, Texas.
Located just over five-hundred feet from Comal Springs, Founders Oak has stood sentry to centuries of travelers and settlers to the Guadalupe River region. From 1756-1758 Nuestra Se'ora de Guadalupe, a Spanish Mission, was located near the springs. Run by two friars and under citizen guard, Nuestra Se'ora de Guadalupe was home to four Spanish families and forty-one Indians. The mission was abandoned in 1758 due to increasingly dangerous raids by Native Americans.
Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, Commissioner General of "The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants of Texas", came to the area in M...
About Jon Burch Photography
Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...
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Jon Burch Photography
Thanks for the features everybody!
Lucinda Walter
Congratulations! Your beautiful work is featured in the group "One Tree - Not Trees" l/f
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thanks Lucinda!
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thanks John!
Debra Martz
Fabulous capture of this old and beautiful oak!
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thank you Debra!
Kathleen K Parker
I appreciate GRAND oak trees, and this one is a beauty! Wonderful!!! :) kk
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thank you very much KK! Gary Richards gave me the heads up on this one last week.
Marco Oliveira
Extraordinary tree! Great work! V.
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thanks Marco!
Gary Richards
Jon, you will have to come back to Texas as we have many more large trees down here to photograph! As you know, everything is bigger and better in Texas! :)
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Heh, Thanks Gary. I believe it!!
Jon Burch Photography replied:
and thanks for the heads up on where to find it too...
Doug Matthews
What a fantastic tree - it seems to ask to be climbed
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thanks Doug. Doubt if the locals would approve of that...
Beverly Guilliams
Fabulous Capture of this Old Oak, Jon..................v./f....Have a Blessed New Year.
Jon Burch Photography replied:
Thank you very much Beverly! U 2!!