If that's a skull, then there's some snot coming out of its nostril! gross! I like this, except my little quibble about it is that the ivy is too sharpened for my taste. It was the first thing I noticed when the pic loaded and bothered my eyes a bit. But ignoring that, I like the color you've captured in the building, it blends nicely with the ivy's color! I love old buildings!

Excellent !

How make you so detailed shots ??? I have a Canon 350D too, but mine have not so clear outlines :-(

A precious place, enchants this photo to me.
Greetings

That's just so cool. Looks like the tree will die, however, being strangled by the ivy.

Wonderful shot!

It certainly does look like the space invader skull!

It is quite interesting in how they have constrained the growth of this.

cool!!!
look like a skull to me...

Usually I like the vibrant colours, but this works quite well de-saturated.

nature has a good place here, beautifull!

It's great to have a fresh eye on Oxford: keep 'em coming!

Great shot.. Did you do some distortion to make it nicely parallel?

Great shot, its quite spooky thinking that the truck is so small to hold up all that weight.

How much neater would it be if only that stick out the bottom of the gree could be cut off...unfortunately this is a statement followed through by a buddly of mine about 10 years on a vine established about as long as this one.

To address Juinels comment about the tree probably dying because of the ivy; The "tree" is the ivy! The thickness of the base of this ivy is an indicator that it has been growing there for quite some time.

Lindo rostro!!!

Nice face-bush!
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Thanks. I live in Oxford and this reminds me that I am very lucky!

I'll want to live in this place!

excelent shot. but the frame not very good.

just i want to say i love your photos sam ! don't wonder cause i want to say your photo remind me a place in tehran !!! yeah !! in north of tehran , where i have very sweet memories there !

I totally get what you mean about the skull..... I remember..... lol

Great use of landscapes no one would use their full potential like you.

It looks as if the tree is trying to climb up the building to get out of the ground. Great photo!

very cool photo. It's crazy how it's growing like that.

Haha....nice find!

Nice one. this is a really good find, and a nice shot :)

very creative. i love your "eye" for things like this. your photography is simply addicting... i just need that "daily dose of imagery"

wow. aliiiyeeeeeeee

Similar question to my post on: http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives/photos_people/050908_1295.shtml

I've noticed with a lot of your pictures that the centre point is near the bottom of the image but the image is missing the bottom half (or third or whatever). Do you shoot these pictures straight on and then crop the bottom part?

The building with the mask -- it's very interesting - almost stoic. It's a nice shot.

It reminds ME of the Mario Face. You know, that spot in the game where you punched out the blocks in such a way as to create a very blocky resemblence of Mario.

The aged wall gives the photo great depth, especially with the green foliage. I've never seen this building, I should go looking for it =)

Thanks for sharing this helpful info!