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This is a male he has a red belly a female does not have the red colour. Photo taken at Figtree Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Above-ground roots of a Moreton Bay fig tree, at Allerton Garden, Lawai, Kauai. (One of the trees seen in the film Jurassic Park - can anyone spot a dinosaur egg?)
A delightful fig tree in a garden in the car park to the cemetery. In the summer the owners cover it completely with netting to keep the birds off the fruit.
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The problem with having a fig tree is getting some figs for yourself before the squirrels, raccoons, and birds eat theirs.
The Fig fruit is used to make the very popular cookie-type thing called the Fig Newton.
Fig Newtons are interesting in that even though you may have the appetite and desire to eat 5 of them, you can actually only eat 3.
My very brave Gran-daughter offering an Emu some food. A bit of eye to eye contact as well I've been pecked on the finger by an Emu so I have no trust in them at all. Photo taken at Lone Pine, Figtree Pocket, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Sydney, NSW, Australia, August 2015. A fig provides shade at "Mrs Macquarie's Chair", a promontory of the Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens.
An Atkinson spotted at a truck show at Figtree (Wollongong) back in the 1970's whilst Iwas living in Wollongong.
The fruits (syconia) of the Knobbly Fig (Ficus sansibarica), form in pairs on woody knobs directly on the tree trunk & mature branches ! When ripe, they go reddish/brownish & have a sweetish taste - a favourite with wild animals like primates.
Prospect Hill.
Charles Flaxman, the agent and secretary of George Fife Angas took out the Meadows Special Survey for himself in 1839. Flaxman was a businessman so he had 4,000 acres to sell off and the government had other surveyed land in the area to sell. But Flaxman had more than the 4,000 acres as he took up some pre paid land orders in the district too. Thus there was ample land for white settlers from 1841. Farmers took up their 80 acre blocks at this time around Meadows and nearby Prospect Hill. The first settlers at Prospect Hill were John and Elizabeth McHarg in 1841. A hill near the settlement was called Survey Hill as the local trigonometrical point from which surveys were taken. Sadly in 1841 their daughter Sarah disappeared that year when walking back from the survey camp. Her remains, and two of her books and a farewell note, were discovered in the bush near the current Prospect Hill in 1843. At 410 metres high Prospect Hill had high rainfall and many large Eucalyptus trees which had to be cleared for agriculture. Consequently one of the first industries in nearby Meadows was a saw mill. As wheat was being grown here by 1844 a flour mill also opened in Meadows in 1856 but soon closed and became another saw mill.
The little village of Prospect Hill emerged in 1873 when the first general store and Post Office was opened by Mr G Griggs in a local residence. It so now the local Museum. In that year the Wesleyan Methodist Church was also built on land donated by Mr Thomas Jones. The government school started in 1877 and existed until closure in 1962. The sleepy village of Prospect Hill became a dairying district in the early 20th century once butter could be refrigerated (not frozen) for shipping to England. Subterranean clover introduced in the 1920s increased the productivity of the pastures for the cows and from 1935 Prospect Hill dairymen sold their milk to the new South Australian Farmers Union milk and cheese factory in Meadows. After World War Two a galvanised iron Soldiers Memorial Hall was built in Prospect Hill in 1960. Sadly much, but not all of the village, was destroyed by the Ash Wednesday bushfires of February 1983. With government aid stones from the old general store out buildings were used to rebuild and develop the Prospect Hill Museum. This impressive local history museum now includes the original general store and residence (not burnt), the best dairy museum exhibits around in a former milking shed, the cool room of the general store, a blacksmiths shed and display, a detailed exhibit on the Ash Wednesday bush fires, an engine room, an old shepherds hut from the 1850s and the former 1893 Meadows school room and display.
In 1899 the SA government started the Kuitpo Forest just south of Prospect Hill for an experimental Australian hardwoods forest. In 1918 this forest was put under the control of the University of Adelaide as they started offering a degree in forestry. In the 1930s Kuitpo Forest moved into softwoods, mainly Pinus radiata and in the 1920s and 1930s it took on a new role. In the 1920s summer camps were set up for city boys from Adelaide High School to learn about the bush and rural life. Then in 1931 Kuitpo was proposed as a suitable camp for prisoners. A public meeting in Meadows objected to the proposal but the government persisted and Kyeema Prison Farm was established in the forest near Prospect Hill in 1932.
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From the vault. The Fig. Shot many months ago while out scouting locations. This Fig sits on the top of a hill at the end of a road. Beautiful golden light.
Enjoy.
- Canon 50D
- ISO 100, f4, 1/600, 80mm.
- Canon 70-200 f/4 L lens.
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Processing
- Contrast and Saturation in Lightroom 3.0.
- Selective sharpening in Photoshop.
About the Moreton Bay Fig
Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay Fig, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in the north to the Illawarra (34° S) in New South Wales, and Lord Howe Island. Its common name is derived from Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is best known for its beautiful buttress roots, which are also known for damaging municipal footpaths.
As Ficus macrophylla is a strangler fig; seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host tree and the seedling lives as an epiphyte until its roots establish contact with the ground. It then enlarges and strangles its host, eventually becoming a freestanding tree by itself. Individuals may reach 60 m (200 ft) in height. Like all figs, it has an obligate mutualism with fig wasps; figs are only pollinated by fig wasps, and fig wasps can only reproduce in fig flowers.
Ficus macrophylla is widely used as a feature tree in public parks and gardens in warmer climates such as California, Portugal, Sicily and Australia. Old specimens can reach tremendous size. Its aggressive root system allows its use in only the largest private gardens.
The Moreton Bay fig was described by French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines. Its specific epithet macrophylla is derived from the Ancient Greek makro "large" and phyllon "leaf", and refers to the size of the leaves. Australian botanist Dale J. Dixon recognised two forms: Ficus macrophylla f. macrophylla, a free-standing tree which is endemic to mainland Australia and Ficus macrophylla f. columnaris, a hemiepiphyte without a distinct main trunk, which is endemic to Lord Howe Island.
The generally used common name is Moreton Bay Fig, after Moreton Bay in southern Queensland, although it is found elsewhere. The term has also been mistakenly generalised to other fig species in Australia. An alternate name, Black Fig, is derived from the dark colour of the ageing bark.
Experimenting with the brush on lightroom, learning to adjust lighting at the moment
Any critique on this image would be fantastic
Al contrari que tots els rapinyaires de les fotos del Cim d'Aligues, aquest xot (otus scops) va per lliure. Això és el maxim que m'hi vaig poder acostar. Poc despres va marxar, cansat de que no el deixes dormir, el pobre.
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I spoted this scops owl (otus scops) from a window. It was sleeping in a fig tree! You can see that he has elevated his "feather ears" to break his silhouette and resemble a piece of wood.
I watched the male bring twigs and build the nest yesterday. Now little Mamma is nesting in my Fig tree. Mourning Doves try to nest in there every year, but it is vulnerable to predators.I hope this time they will stay and we can see the baby doves hatch this year:)
Ho guardato il maschio portare rami e costruire il nido di ieri. ormai poco mamma è di nidificazione nel mio fico. Doves provare a nidificare in là, ogni anno, ma è vulnerabile ai predatori. Spero che questa volta si fermeranno e possiamo vedere le colombe bambino boccaporto di quest'anno :)
♥ Have a great day my friends and thank you for your visits!
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At the back of the historic St Barnabas Chapel is an enormous Fig tree (Ficus virens or Banyan) which this local boy was having fun with the rope swing going from one platform to another.
I liked to colour combinations in the newly ploughed hillside contrasting with the lighter fig trees. The grape vines are the dark stumps on the ground....
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FILMPROCESSING, SCANNING, PRINTING, E6
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For Sydney people and other film shooters in Australia who may need to mail film to labs, I can highly recommend Rewind Photo Lab.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is one of the most famous Russian playwrights and one of the most screened prose writers because in his works more than 100 films have been shot.
Chekhov has purchased this property in January of 1900, as a place where he could escape from numerous visitors and guests of his Yalta house. Here he wrote the first act of the play Три сестры. While Anton Chekhov himself did not live in this house for extended periods of time, several members of his family did.Three rooms of the house are restored with contemporary furnishings. The exhibits are dedicated to Chekhov’s relationship with his wife, Olga Knipper, the play Three sisters, and the people that have surrounded him, his family and friends.
В 1898 году Чеховым А.П. был куплен участок в Гурзуфе. Это была татарская сакля с четырьмя комнатами, построенной прямо на берегу маленькой бухты за Пушкинской скалой (другое название — Подзорная труба). За все это и кусочек берега просили 3000 рублей. Это было дорого и, вознамерившись поторговаться, писатель пришел осмотреть место лично. Увидев такой красивый вид, оценив местоположение литератор пришел в восторг. Сделка тут же состоялась.
Позднее на нем был разбит ухоженный сад и построен небольшой уютный домик, проект которого разрабатывал Шаповалов Л.Н.
По завещанию писателя дача отошла его жене, О.Л. Книппер, которая жила там ежегодно в летние месяцы. В 1963 году дом перешел в ведение Союза художников СССР.
Восстановить дачу в том самом первоначальном виде, когда ее покупал писатель, предложил в 1987 году известный артист Олег Ефремов. Именно этот год считается годом открытия музея, как филиала чеховского дома-музея в Ялте. А с 2016 года он входит в структуру Крымского литературно-художественного мемориального музея-заповедника.