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Hal Borland~
Have you ever stopped to think about where we would be without our trees?
I love trees.....I'm happy to admit I'm a tree hugger and proud of it!! :)
Have a great day.....and hug a tree, it feels good, try it!!
She couldn't act, sing, or dance, but when he saw Mako in her costume, he wanted to hug a tree like never before in his life.
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Created for the #FlickrFriday theme, #HugATree.
I know this image is being shared, I am glad I am getting the hits for it, but can anyone tell me where in the comments? just curios.
Drinking sustainable coffee beans make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
ODC warm and fuzzy feeling
day 43 of 365
~ Nelson Henderson
I think I used this quote before, but the message is worth repeating. :) Enjoy your Sunday night and have a great week ahead!!
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I found these bright yellow gloves and had to use them as a prop. The light was gone, so this is a 20 second exposure taken in the dark! The beech tree fell a few years ago and was lying flat on the ground.
#HugATree #FlickrFriday
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Vidisha hugging the big beautiful banyan tree.
I took some pictures of her holding a board with a nice message, last year at Neralu Festival, and they were published on many newspapers and online media - It made her very popular. This year, when she requested me to take a photo, I wanted to make photograph in which the message that she was carrying was conveyed. It was quite clear that we had to somehow feature this banyan tree. The tree is huge and it's not easy to get the entire tree with a regular lens. The obvious choice was to go with a 15 mm fish-eye lens, which did the job very well. (I had carried only 2 lenses for this shoot - the 24-105 and the 15mm fisheye)
Stop by NGMA sometime and take a look at this beautiful tree - it is right next to the parking lot. And if you have time this Saturday (Feb 14th), drop by at Bal Bhavan, where the second part of this year's Neralu - Bengaluru Tree Festival is being celebrated. The first part of the festival, conducted last weekend at NGMA, Doddamavalli Katte and MN Krishna Rao Park, was a big hit.
For more details about the festival, please check neralu.in
'' Humans are the only creatures in this world who cut down the forests, turned them into paper and then wrote, ''SAVE THE TREES'' ON IT! ''
(19) THIS ONE GOES OUT TO ALL THE WONDERFUL TREES ON MOTHER EARTH
THE TREE HUGGER IN ME
By Paul Williams
When the world all around you is madness and stress
Your plans lay in ruins, your dreams are a mess
When your brain is lethargic and eyes just can't see
Take a moment in time, spread the love, hug a tree
Wrap your arms gently round, let your mind wander free
Step away from your worries, and the goodness you'll see
Mother nature your guardian as the Earth soothes your soul
Let the happiness flow, contemplation your goal
When The day is a lifetime filled with pain and frustration
Take a moment to halt all your procrastination
Take a walk, breathe fresh air, where your soul can fly free
Press your flesh to the bark, try embracing a tree
Place your face to the ripples and your feet to the roots
Breathe deeply and smile, feel the love, fill your boots
This life is so precious and fragile it's true
Take a moment to share, let the happiness through
This journey we make on a road full of turns
Leaves us battered, bewildered with a heart bruised that yearns
But cast off your chains and true freedom you'll see
Mark a moment in time, soothe your soul, hug a tree
With global recession and poverty, war
Mankind a disease rapes the landscape, what for?
Greed fuels the rat race and peace shall not be
Giving oxygen, beauty and shelter, the trees
As we cut down the forests wreaking havoc for cash
We sell of the wood and the animals dash
Hell bent on destruction in blindness, yet she
Mother earth shall eternally breathe through her trees
Little Earth hold me, fill my head and my heart
I'm willing to change my bleak outlook, fresh start
The beauty and love that lays deep down in me
Set free in these magical moments with trees
Simplicity bathe me, karma deep down
My balance restored and normality found
Some will laugh at my actions, point their fingers at me
The last laugh is mine in my time spent with trees
When this life is a prison and your mind is a cell
Seek solace and comfort, break free from the spell
Find peace and tranquillity, there you will be
Contented and cleansed, go ahead, hug a tree
If man cannot learn from mistakes and restore
A balance to life then what's it all for
Lay down and look up in a forest and see
The answer is simple, wake up, hug a tree
©Copyright DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams) - written on August 14th 2013
An acre of mature trees can provide in one year enough oxygen for eighteen people. They help to absorb pollutant gasses including Nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, ammonia and Ozone, filtering harmful particulates by trapping them on their bark and leaves. Trees can cool the air by up to ten degrees by releasing water vapour into the air through their leaves and by natural shade. They absorb CO2 Carbon dioxide, removing it and storing carbon before releasing oxygen back into the air. In a single year an acre of established trees absorbs the equivalent amount of CO2 as one car travelling 26.000 miles. Trees have been proven to help in a therapeutical way and tests have shown the importance of their 'feel good' factor to hospital patients and sufferers of conditions including ADHD by reducing mental fatigue.
Trees also provide us with green spaces and forests to walk, bring us closer to nature and provide a home for many species of animals and plants. They also help us produce fuel and paper and many other commercial goods these days as well and provide us with a magnificent visual spectacle to mark the changing seasons of the year. They are beautiful, vital, essential, they are the lungs of Mother Earth.
On my Flickr site I have four whole albums with a total of more than two thousand images of trees, amounting to one eighth of my total output of photographs displayed.
This photograph is representative of a subject matter that is so important to me and has been in truth since the day I first began taking photographs. Of all the photographs I have taken over the years, of all the ones uploaded to my Flickr account, shown in previous websites and blogs and published through my agents Getty Images, this simple one is the purest representation of how I feel. It originally appeared in one of my published books and has been published by Getty Images and in a few online articles and magazines along the way, but commercial success is of little importance to me with this image, more the conveyance of my feelings.
I've been in some amazing temperate rain forests in Canada and the United States of America, deserts and the highlands of Scotland, woodlands in the Lake districts and New forest of the UK and parks and recreational areas across much of Europe, and my feelings when surrounded by the magnificent beauty, majesty and aura of trees has always been the same throughout my life. I am a tree hugger for sure, and proud of it.
This image was taken on a July afternoon off Fairview Lane at The High Rocks, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. High Rocks is a 3.2 hectare (7.9 acre) geological Special site of scientific interest, in East Sussex, England. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 and is an important geomorphological site for sandstone weathering features. The location was formed when a melting ice sheet at the end of the last Ice age uncovered hardened silt deposited when the area was part of the Wealden Lake. There are traces of Middle Stone Age and Iron Age residents, including a 1st-century A.D. fort guarding against the Roman invasion of Britain.
It's a stunning location, a breath of fresh air, an expanse of sprawling landscape with history and significance where trees abound, growing out of ancient rocks and providing a gorgeous canopy that has me transfixed on every visit. Nowadays also used as a spectacular wedding venue and linked to a fabulous old Italian owned family pub and restaurant that I've frequented many a time over the years, this is a little piece of heaven in a world full of madness.
My equipment for this visit included my much loved and cherished Nikon D800, a camera that I could never write enough praise about, a game changer and a marker of a moment in time when the digital world of professional photography changed for ever. It ushered in a new era of clarity and definition and usability, knocking on the door of the sort of quality we were used to with high end, ultra expensive medium format cameras such as Hasselblad, Bronica and Mamiya. Sure the medium format's were superior, but then they could cost up to £30,000 for a body and/or back and the new Nikon D800 came in at £3,000 or so offering stunning resolution and much greater versatility. For me the D800 was a sort of coming of age of digital cameras, and my time with mine was a learning curve that taught me so much in the way of technique, made me think about the photography I was taking and made me a better photographer in that process.
Teamed here with the fabulous Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF lens that I still to this day prefer over the newer version with VR which I found trades corner sharpness for centre sharpness. The older version is now a steal to buy second hand and bang for buck blows it's newer sister out of the water. One of the greatest all round lenses I have ever had the pleasure to own and use.
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Photograph taken at 15:47pm on Friday July 26th 2013 off Fairview Lane at The High Rocks, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
Nikon D800 Focal length: 40mm Shutter speed: 1/80s Aperture: f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14-bit) Uncompressed file size L (7369 x 4912 Pixels) Resolution: 300dpi Handheld Focus mode: Manual focus Exposure mode: Manual exposure White balance: Auto white balance Colour space: Adobe RGB
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries Lowepro Transporter camera strap.Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag.Sandisc 32GB Ultra Class 10 30MB/s SDHC card. Hoodman HGEC soft viewfinder eyecup. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit
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LATITUDE: N 51d 7m 18.47s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 13m 34.43s
ALTITUDE: 110.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 103.00MB
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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Tree roots twisting and turning always fascinate me when I view the various trunks they create .Hazlehead Park is a large public park in the Hazlehead area of Aberdeen, Scotland. 180 hectares in size, it was opened to the public in 1920, having formerly been the estate of Hazlehead House, home of William Rose, shipbuilder.
A large, heavily wooded park on the outskirts of the city, it is popular with walkers on the many tracks through forests; sports enthusiasts (particularly mountain bikers); naturalists; and picnickers. Horse riders from the nearby Hayfield horse centre ride on the tracks that snake through it.
There are football pitches, two golf courses, a pitch and putt course and a horse-riding school. The park has a significant collection of sculpture by a range of artists, including the memorial to those who lost their lives in the Piper Alpha disaster.
It also has heritage items which have been rescued from various places within the city, and it features Scotland's oldest maze, first planted in 1935.
Getting close to nature.
Even oak trees need love and my niece was more than happy to oblige.
At Woolbeding in West Sussex.
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Helen, this is my submission to the "WOOD" photo challenge :>)
There's a huge Pine Tree at the "Palaisgarten" in Detmold, Germany. It is so big and strong, that it can easily carry you while you are sitting on it or lay down on it. The tree deserves a hug!
This is planted in the ground now but it was last years Christmas tree we had inside and decorated. We never buy a cut tree or cut one down!. Give to the earth, for it gives back without asking~
The moment we stop and take nature in, we can hear the trees sing.
Model: Lill Astrid Johannessen
Photo: Linda Halvorsen
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***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on May 6th 2015
CREATIVE RF gty.im/ 552731003 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 615th frame to be selected for inclusion and sale in the Getty Images 'Moment' collection and I am very grateful to them for such a wonderful oportunity.
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Photograph taken at 15:47pm on Friday July 26th 2013 off Fairview Lane at The High Rocks, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.
High Rocks is a 3.2 hectare (7.9 acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest 3 km (1.9 mi) west of Tunbridge Wells in East Sussex, England. The site was notified in 1986 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and is an important geomorphological site for sandstone weathering features.
I have always loved trees, forests and woodlands and love to spend time photpgraphing their beauty. I am also partial to a bit of tree hugging to cleanse my soul. Go on, let a tree into your life once in a while, you'll feel all the better for it....
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Nikon D800 35mm 1/80s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14-bit) Handheld
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries Lowepro Transporter camera strap.Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag.Sandisc 32GB Ultra Class 10 30MB/s SDHC card. Hoodman HGEC soft viewfinder eyecup. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit
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LATITUDE: N 51d 7m 18.47s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 13m 34.67s
ALTITUDE: 116.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED FILE: 21.87MB
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
From the lovely IndigoSky.
Thank you for the gorgeous card and the tea samplers.