This huge tree and the soft bed of leaves below it form a rustic background for my Roosebeck Lute-kulele. This instrument is modeled after a Renaissance-era lute. It has four courses of strings tuned to the GCEA of a tenor ukulele. Like a real lute, the top and bottom courses are single strings while the inner ones are doubled.

If you look through my gallery, it is apparent that I like shooting closeups of musical instruments. But for my second book of guitar photos, I decided to get them out “in the wild” for for some full-body photos.