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after lunch on monday we hiked down to the Tuolumne Grove of giant sequoias, and the forest looked so beautiful with the snow falling...
Class 201 Hastlings Line DEMU 1001 heads towards Wokingham station with the "Dean Forest Foray" tour from Hastings to Parkend on the Dean Forest Railway. DMBS 60116 "Mountfield" brings up the rear, with 60118 "Tunbridge Wells" leading the outbound working.
The forests around the small town of Irrel, in the western part of Germany are stunning in this time of the year. I had the chance to spend a few hours walking around the area and was truly taken by the quiet beauty of this place.
On the technical side, I used again my Sigma 35mm 1.4 wide open to produce this panorama. I just love the feeling of the resulting image even if it's not sharp corner to corner as I usually try with most landscape photographs.
Los bosques que rodean el pequeño pueblo de Irrel, en el oeste de Alemania, son verdaderamente hermosos en esta época del año. El otro día tuve la oportunidad de pasear durante algunas horas por la zona y me impresionó mucho la calma y la belleza del lugar.
Como nota técnica, utilicé aquí de nuevo mi objetivo Sigma 35mm 1.4 completamente abierto para hacer este panorama. Me encanta el ambiente que produce incluso si no es una foto totalmente nítida como intento de costumbre con los paisajes.
This High Dynamic Range 360° aerial panorama was stitched from 104 bracketed photographs with PTGUI Pro, tone-mapped with Photomatix, processed with Color Efex, and touched up in Affinity Photo and Aperture.
Original size: 25000 × 12500 (312.5 MP; 1.38 GB).
Location: Walker Woods, Ontario, Canada
Day 181/366 of Project 365 (Monday, June 29 - 50th consecutive daily photo): Mature beech-maple forest at Warren Woods State Park (south tract), Three Oaks Township, Berrien County, Michigan.
"Einst war er stolze 8.500 Hektar groß, der über 12.000 Jahre alte Hambacher Forst, einer der urwüchsigsten Wälder Europas. Eigentlich hätte er gemäß FFH-Richtlinie an die Europäische Kommission gemeldet und unter Schutz ge-
stellt werden müssen. Diese Meldung unterblieb – angeblich entspricht die Abholzung des riesigen Areals voller seltener Pflanzen- und Tierarten dem allgemeinen öffentlichen Interesse...
Die FFH-Richtlinie
1992 beschloss die EU den Aufbau von „Natura 2000“, einem
Schutzgebietsnetz zum Erhalt wildlebender Pflanzen- und Tierarten und ihrer natürlichen Lebensräume. Dieses Netz sollte Schutzgebiete sowohl nach der Fauna-Flora-
Habitat-Richtlinie (einer Naturschutzrichtlinie der EU von 1992) als auch nach der Vogelschutzrichtlinie aus dem Jahr 1979 umfassen. Als „natürliche Lebensräume von gemeinschaftlichem Interesse, für deren Erhaltung besondere Schutz-gebiete ausgewiesen werden müssen“, gelten nach diesen Richtlinien auch Stieleichen-Hainbuchen-Wälder.
Laut BUND ist der Hambacher Forst die mit Abstand größte Waldfläche dieser Art in Deutschland und zusammen mit der benachbarten Steinheide das zweitgrößte Vorkommen dieses Typs in Europa. Neben Stieleichen und Hainbuchen finden sich im Wald u.a. seltene natürliche Vorkommen der Winter- linde, die Nahrungsquelle für Falter, Honigbienen und andere Insekten ist. Zudem gibt es große Menge Maiglöckchen im
Forst. Diese – übrigens unter Naturschutz stehenden – zarten Blumen mit den filigranen weißen Blüten sind ebenfalls beliebte Nahrungsquelle für Bienen und für Vögel."
Quelle: "Mit Baumhäusern gegen Bagger - Geschichten vom Widerstand im rheinischen Braunkohlerevier"
1 of 2 for today. (Best seen in large size)
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A few days ago, I walked through a forest in Oregon's Ecola State Park. It was a nice break from the regular everyday routine.
It was my first time visiting Oregon, so I toured both the mountains and coast to get a sense of things. There was no real plan other than drive, observe, and take photos. I'd see something intriguing, and follow it until I had to turn around.
In this case, I was near Cannon Beach, which is a famous resort town. This particular trail leads to the isolated Crescent Beach, which bears no resemblance to the beaches in Florida. It was a good change of pace.
Burned Forest. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A Yosemite National Park forest beginning its post-wildfire recovery..
This photograph comes from Yosemite National Park, and not far from the current wildfire in the Mariposa Grove area. There are “good fires” and “bad fires” — the former tend to burn loose stuff on the forest floor along with some small trees and other plants, while the later burn hot and climb into the crowns of the trees and often killing them. Most of the trees in a healthy forest will survive the good fires, but increasingly the forests are now faced with bad fires that cause tremendous destruction. A quick scan around this photograph reveals some dead young trees but also some remaining green branches that likely mark a tree that is going to survive.
Photographing wildfire sites has long been a challenge for me. Many years ago I simply regarded wildfires as evil, but today my view is more nuanced, and I accept that some fire occurs in healthy forests and, in fact, is necessary and good. The challenge photographically has been to see these scenes as being subjects for beautiful photography rather than just as destruction.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Lots of colors and light floating around the forest floor. Ennis Nature Preserve west of Mount Vernon, IA
Morro da Viúva/Widower's Mount with a protected tropical forest above, hidden for the tall buildings. Viewed fron my house's bathroom!
A link to see fron above: wikimapia.org/#lat=-22.941845&lon=-43.1734264&z=1...