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This is a strange one! The tree is very large and tall but the flowers all hang from stems 10 feet or so from the ground so it feels like they are growing on a vine attached to the tree rather than the tree itself! These are called cauliflorous... flowers that grow from the trunk.
In the rainforests of South American, fruits of the Cannonball tree sway and clash in the wind, creating loud noises like artillery fire! These fruits really do resemble big, rusty cannonballs as they hang in clusters on the side of the tree attached to rope like tangles that emerge directly from the trunk.
The Cannonball tree’s beautifully complex and fragrant flowers resemble huge orchids. At night the flowers become particularly pungent in order to attract swift-flying pollinators. This particular Cannonball tree was collected in 1913 at Jamaica’s Hope Gardens and has flourished at Fairchild since it was planted here in 1938."
Couroupita guianensis, whose common names include Ayahuma and the Cannonball Tree, is an evergreen tree allied to the Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa), and is native to tropical northern South America and to the southern Caribbean. In India it has been growing for the past two or three thousand years at least, as attested by textual records; hence it is possible that it is native to India also. It's part of the family Lecythidaceae and grows up to 25m (82ft) in height. The "Cannonball Tree" is so called because of its brown cannon-ball-like fruits. The majority of these trees outside their natural environment have been planted as a botanical curiosity, as they grow very large, distinctive flowers. Its flowers are orange, scarlet and pink in color, and form large bunches measuring up to 3m in length. They produce large spherical and woody fruits ranging from 15 to 24cm in diameter, containing up to 200 or 300 seeds apiece.
Cannonball Tree, Couroupita guianensis
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
The Ocean Roars with Mighty Force, Endless Depths and Endless Course, A Symphony of Crashing Waves, Natures Power on Full Display.
SRC 89 comes through the fields near The Red Caboose Motel on the way back to East Strasburg station on a Santa run.
Clash of birches, in snowfall.
I left a bit of colour, thought it worked well here. Thanks for taking your time and have a nice evening folks.
I don't read a lot of fiction so for this weeks Macro Mondays theme "My Favourite Novel (Fiction)" I chose to google a fictional novel to represent and came upon "A Clash of Kings".
This was going to be a fairly easy one to represent as I could either have used a chess board or a pack of playing cards.
I chose the chess board and after first focussing on my ruler to frame for the 3 inch rule I then set up the board and then positioned my tripod so that the kings were in focus.
I used some of my sons Play-Doh to make the kings lean toward each other and then angled the camera for a slightly more dynamic view.
I shot the same composition at a series of different aperture settings and chose f/8 as it had the effect I Ilked the most.
I have included a link to a Wikipedia page about the book below.
Sedona is in the transition between autumn and winter during this time of year and the weather system that rolled through over the last couple of days reminded us of that! In this scene an unusually late and colorful autumn display nicely contrasts with the results of an unusually early brush with winter.
Even though the first day of summer is just under two weeks away, fresh heavy wet snow fell in the high country overnight delivering much-needed moisture. Running about 90-minutes late, the westbound California Zephyr rounds the curve approaching Vasquez Road in Winter Park, Colorado, on June 9, 2020 (yes that's the correct date).
For two hours I stood transfixed by dancing clouds as they drifted in and out of these colossal fir trees near Mt Robson, BC.
I don't know about you, but I get a huge kick out of capturing bonus images that I never intended or expected to find.
It's even better when those bonus shots turn out to be way better than the one you're standing around waiting for.
It just goes to show that it pays to have that second camera and ideally a big old telephoto lens.
At 274mm, I had to switch on the optical stabilization of the lens to minimize the camera shake. To free up the shutter button, I used back button auto focus which was assigned to a big button on the back of the camera that I could control with my thumb.
I find it really useful to save these types of camera settings to a C3 custom setting dial on the camera. I can then instantly recall these lesser used settings with the turn of a dial giving me more time to capture the moment and less time faffing around with camera settings.
Thanks for looking
Gavin
Still weird to see Macs on Metra. Here we see a UP line train crossing over the Milwaukee Road In downtown Chicago
ExPLoReD! No 68 on 12th April 2015. Thanks very much for all your faves and comments.
I'm guessing they painted the front door when the rose wasn't in flower, otherwise they just might have thought about the colour!
In Burton .Bradstock on the Dorset Jurassic Coast, England.
A sea of colorful night-market tents in an ocean of grey concrete. That's Bangkok in 2020 for you! Well... one aspect of it. There is quite a bit more to this city. Not all pleasant though. But always exciting. And if you wait until dusk for the lights to turn on, it might actually look quite beautiful.
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It’s been 1 1/2 years since I’ve been to Iceland but I still have images left that I want to publish. This picture of a block of ice washed ashore on the black beach at the Jökulsarlon glacier lagoon is one of them. Our visit at Jökulsarlon was probably the most memorable location of our whole trip and I keep coming back to the hundreds of pictures I took during that night. Here I really like how the different classical elements – air, water, earth and even fire (in the sky) – all come together.
Narrabeen Beach, Sydney, Australia
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Triceratops designed by Kawahata Fumiaki in 1999; Tyrannosaurus designed by Satoshi Kamiya in 1998.
Each folded from an uncut square of Nepalese lokta.
Secretly, my love of origami is born of a desire to continue playing with action figures.
(This is not my best work. I'm a little lazy these days, and occupied with papermaking.)