Maple Crest PhotoEst. at the Great Leaf-Fall
With Gratitude to the Photographers

Maple Crest Photo: Credits & Licences

The sitters are trees; the photographs, however, were taken by people, and very good ones. Every photograph on this site comes from Wikimedia Commons and is used under the licence shown below. Authorship and licence were checked against each file’s Commons record.

All photographs have been resized, re-compressed and stripped of embedded camera metadata for this site; some are shown cropped inside frames. No other alterations were made. The names, titles, dates, biographies and coats of arms attached to each tree are entirely invented and are not endorsed by the photographers.

Adaptations of works licensed under CC BY-SA are offered under the same licence as the original.

Twelve photographs, listed in order of appearance.
ImageUsed asOriginal titleAuthorLicence
His Grace Acer Magnificus (hero portrait) Maple Tree in Warner Park - panoramio.jpg Corey Coyle CC BY 3.0
Sir Acer platanoides III Autumn maple in Tuntorp, Lysekil 5.jpg W.carter CC BY-SA 4.0
The Duchess of Sweetwater Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) - Kitchener, Ontario 02.jpg Ryan Hodnett CC BY-SA 4.0
The Viscount Purpuratus 20121018Acer platanoides 'Schwedleri'1.jpg AnRo0002 CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
The Countess Rubra Fall glory - maple tree in Prospect Park.jpg Baseball821 CC BY-SA 4.0
The Honourable Master Acer Maple in autumn at Tinsley Green - geograph.org.uk - 1780619.jpg Nic Franklin-Woolley CC BY-SA 2.0
The Dowager Pseudoplatana Hvozdec, Mrtník, memorable tree (1) in 2016.JPG Chmee2 CC BY 3.0
Lady Palmata of the Weeping Line Acer palmatum 'Inaba Shidare' in autumn sunshine - 2021-10-17 - Andy Mabbett - 01.jpg Andy Mabbett CC BY-SA 4.0
Sir Circinatus the Errant Autumn vine maple (665050c0aff240cdb48d27fd9ecba522).JPG Steve Redman (MORA), U.S. National Park Service Public domain (work of a U.S. federal agency)
The Earl Pseudoplatanus Acer pseudoplatanus 01(js) Lodz (Poland).jpg Jerzy Strzelecki CC BY-SA 3.0
Heraldry Explained (samara specimen) Maple seed pods Fcb981.JPG Fcb981 at English Wikipedia CC BY 2.5
“Pruned” page (fallen leaf) Acer platanoides in Aveyron (5).jpg Krzysztof Golik CC BY-SA 4.0

Arms, ornaments and type

Every coat of arms, the favicon, the family tree, the dividers and the falling leaves were drawn in code especially for this site; no existing arms were copied or adapted. Any resemblance to arms borne by a real family, town or institution is accidental. Text is set in the reader’s own system serif. The site loads no external fonts, scripts or trackers.

A note on the sitters

The trees depicted have not been consulted about their titles and are not, so far as we know, members of any peerage. Their real locations are recorded on the original file pages above.