Resilience 2
Resilience: "adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma or stress".
The Haleakala Silversword plant in the foreground is very rare and only grows in the caldera of Haleakala, a large 10,000 ft. dormant volcano on the east side of Maui Island. It grows only above 7,000 ft.on the volcanic cinder, as visible in the photo, where nothing else can survive, being subjected to bright sunlight, daytime heat, freezing nights and seasonal high winds made more severe by climatic change. Besides natural pressures this threatened species was reduced by grazing animals, vandals and trophy hunters.
My photo was taken in 1981 during a hike across Haleakala's substantial caldera in the heat and dust; a hostile environment made worse as I suffer from altitude sickness (see my Nepal album for more on that).
This visit in 1981 preceded determined effort by the National Park Service to protect the caldera's ecology from harm by ever-increasing but usually well-meaning visitors.
Photoshopped only to remove the purple tinge that plagues many of my slides from this era.
Pentax ME, Epson V500 scan of 35mm Kodachrome slide.
(see also 'Resilience 1', a tree in Yosemite (see Comment below)
Resilience 2
Resilience: "adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma or stress".
The Haleakala Silversword plant in the foreground is very rare and only grows in the caldera of Haleakala, a large 10,000 ft. dormant volcano on the east side of Maui Island. It grows only above 7,000 ft.on the volcanic cinder, as visible in the photo, where nothing else can survive, being subjected to bright sunlight, daytime heat, freezing nights and seasonal high winds made more severe by climatic change. Besides natural pressures this threatened species was reduced by grazing animals, vandals and trophy hunters.
My photo was taken in 1981 during a hike across Haleakala's substantial caldera in the heat and dust; a hostile environment made worse as I suffer from altitude sickness (see my Nepal album for more on that).
This visit in 1981 preceded determined effort by the National Park Service to protect the caldera's ecology from harm by ever-increasing but usually well-meaning visitors.
Photoshopped only to remove the purple tinge that plagues many of my slides from this era.
Pentax ME, Epson V500 scan of 35mm Kodachrome slide.
(see also 'Resilience 1', a tree in Yosemite (see Comment below)