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My last shot of the day at Botany Bay. It was past time to leave and my family had already made the hike back to the car, but I couldn't resist taking one more shot, which lead to another and another. This place is so magical. Anyway, this really was my final photo at Botany Bay. The sky started blazing and I had to stick around to see what happened next. The hard part was jogging back to the car with all my gear, in the dark with wet, sand-filled shoes. My feet had blisters for days, but this place is worth it, so if you haven't visited, you should. Enjoy! - MIMO1999
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Botany is the scientific study of plants ... and this includes algae, fungi, lichens and mosses.
A mushroom is fungi in the shape of an umbrella with a cup-shaped or flat cap on top of a stalk. They are actually the fruiting bodies, or flowers, that are produced by fungi. Spores are produced by a group of cells, called basidia, found on the underside of the mushroom cap. The body of the fungus is underground. While mushrooms come in all shapes, sizes and colors, the general structure remains the same.
The terms “mushroom” and “toadstool” are purely unscientific labels applied to different varieties of fungus. There’s no real scientific difference, however the name “toadstool” is commonly used to describe fungi that are inedible or poisonous, while “mushroom” is generally reserved for those that are safe to eat.
Sunrise at Botany Bay Boneyard on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The intense colors of that morning created a dreamy unreal scene.
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I've lived in Kent all my life a yet strangely this weekend was the first I'd ever heard of Botany Bay and the first time I've visited Deal Pier. I wonder what other gems Kent has waiting for me.
The better pictures I took in Norfolk were nearly always made in the late afternoon and early evening. The low golden light suits an orange filter and seems to last longer than the “golden hour” of dawn.
I was very anxious that the tones here were as accurate as possible. Black and white pictures can easily become ridiculously dramatic. I certainly faked up some hideous monstrosities. Realism is a dodgy concept - particularly when you don’t use colours - but I think we owe honesty to the subject and ourselves.
This is Botany Bay between Hindringham and Bale. The farmhouse - as far as one can tell - is a pleasant late 18th century building. At the time it was built the countryside was being transformed and topical names were popular: I know of several Bunker’s Hills (which appears to be how it was actually spelt ) :)
Botany Bay, in New South Wales, became the site of a penal colony in 1788 . Exile there was like being sent to Pluto. It was unimaginably far away. A detailed map of 1815 shows this landscape very much as we see it now, with Botany Bay specifically identified as a tiny field beyond the house on the boundary of the parish. So the name here is probably a joke: This was the edge of the small world of Hindringham - and is still, rather strikingly, remote.
Between Bale and Hindringham, Norfolk. Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko f2.8 28mm (probably), Kodak T-Max 400, Orange Filter.
Port Botany
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and my favorite little breakwall, albeit pretty well the same as the other 30 along the bay ;)
‘DAWN’ - Port Botany
Dawn breaking over Port Botany, how quickly the conditions changed with just 14 minutes between these two frames… Sitting alongside Sydney Airports 3rd runway (16L/34R( and often seen in images from The Beach as a backdrop.
(Updated on March 11, 2025)
While I'm not sure where I was on Puerto Blanco Drive when I took this shot, I know I was well past the point at the Pinkley Peak picnic area where the road becomes a stony, one-way, high-clearance-only track. My best guess is that I was just east of the northern end of the Puerto Blanco Mountains.
Isn't it a shame that deserts are such bare, bleak, and lifeless places? I mean, isn't that what those Dune movies show? Why would a botanist ever one to visit one?
Of course, this photo illustrates that such arid environments—the Sonoran Desert chief among them—often feature amazingly diverse, drought-adapted plant populations.
Here the largest and most eye-catching species are the tubular, pale-green Organ Pipe Cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) and the darker, slender-branched Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens). The latter is splendid indeed when it produces brilliant red flowers at its stem tips after a good rain.
In addition, there are quite a number of other, lower xerophytic (aridity-tolerant) plant varieties growing up through this hillside's desert pavement.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument album.
While I can't remember where exactly this photo was taken, I know it shows a section of the main road—presumably Route E65—some distance north of Tripoli.
Here we're at the height of the local flowering season of one the most iconic sights of the Hellenic countryside, the Almond Tree (Prunus dulcis).
A member of the Rose Family (Rosaceae), the genus Prunus is renowned for two outstanding attributes. Its various fruit types range from cherries and plums to apricots and peaches; and the ornamental appeal of its floral displays has inspired many a poet and gardener. But it boasts no more gorgeous bloomer than the Almond.
I said to the almond tree: “speak to me of God.” And the almond tree blossomed.
– NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, The Fratricides
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Trees of Greece album.
‘DAWN’ - Port Botany
Dawn breaking over Port Botany, how quickly the conditions changed with just 14 minutes between these two frames… Sitting alongside Sydney Airports 3rd runway (16L/34R( and often seen in images from The Beach as a backdrop.
When seen under magnification, plant stems sliced horizontally have a beautiful lace like pattern. The shapes are formed by the vessels that move water from the roots to the leaves, called xylem and pholem.
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This is a beach near Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island. I was really disappointed with the fog but it does add a neat effect.
A large field of Aspen Daisies soaking in the warm late summer light at Cedar Breaks National Monument. Cedar Breaks is well known for its Wildflower Festivals and noted as "The Most Colorful Place on Earth." (Cedar Breaks National Monument - Wildflowers)
Taken with an Olympus OM2, 24mm Zuiko lens and red filter on Ilford FP4+. Developed using Ilfotec DD-X and scanned with an Epson V550.