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Seascape, seascape, seascape it’s time for a tree me thinks. Back to a wonderful misty morning back in May.
I composed this photograph during a recent 'photography journey' through Kananaskis Country, a vast wilderness and recreational area west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The image is a macro shot of larch tree branches and their needles, which are transitioning from green to glorious shades of yelloow-gold. For those interested in learning more about larch trees, and how they got their name, read on.
Although they are conifers, larches are deciduous trees that lose their needles in the autumn. Before those needles drop, their colours change from green to glorious shades of yellow-gold. After the needles drop, only a skeletal structure remains, looking like a dead pine tree. Larches are among the dominant plants in the boreal forests of Siberia and Canada.
About the naming of this tree. What follows is more information than many will find necessary. Nonetheless....
The English name larch ultimately derives from the Latin "larigna", named after the ancient settlement of Larignum. The story of its naming was preserved by Vitruvius: “It is worth while to know how this wood was discovered. The divine Caesar, being with his army in the neighbourhood of the Alps, and having ordered the towns to furnish supplies, the inhabitants of a fortified stronghold there, called Larignum, trusting in the natural strength of their defences, refused to obey his command. So the general ordered his forces to the assault. In front of the gate of this stronghold there was a tower, made of beams of this wood laid in alternating directions at right angles to each other, like a funeral pyre, and built high, so that they could drive off an attacking party by throwing stakes and stones from the top. When it was observed that they had no other missiles than stakes, and that these could not be hurled very far from the wall on account of the weight, orders were given to approach and to throw bundles of brushwood and lighted torches at this outwork. These the soldiers soon got together.
The flames soon kindled the brushwood which lay about that wooden structure and, rising towards heaven, made everybody think that the whole pile had fallen. But when the fire had burned itself out and subsided, and the tower appeared to view entirely uninjured, Caesar in amazement gave orders that they should be surrounded with a palisade, built beyond the range of missiles. So the townspeople were frightened into surrendering, and were then asked where that wood came from which was not harmed by fire. They pointed to trees of the kind under discussion, of which there are very great numbers in that vicinity. And so, as that stronghold was called Larignum, the wood was called larch.”
Officially now Winter and the leaves are still falling. Taken in a local park.
It was our warmest Autumn on record in Palmerston North! www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/305886/warm-weather-puzzl...
I think I was having what must nowadays be described as a liminal experience as we transitioned across the nexus between the British Isles and the European Continent: the English Channel. (Pseud's Corner in the British satirical magazine Private Eye: please consider this statement for inclusion.)
Casco Viego - Old Town of Panama City
In the background the Skyline of Panama City
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I wen t optimistically looking for the first spring beauty but had to accept the silhouettes of transitioning pieces of forest through the final snow
The sky looked pitch black when I took this image in Grand Teton National Park however faint morning glow is already evident on this east facing shot taken at 4:30 am. The star cluster Pleiades and the far eastern edge of the Milky Way are seem.
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Ice and snow slowly transition to liquid water in a small, shallow tarn high above the Innvikfjorden and the town of Loen, Norway.
The climb up a different fjord on the previous day was significant enough that some in our party balked at repeating the effort so soon on its heels, so on this day we elected to plonk down our kroners and enjoy an effortless ride to the top of the Innvikfjorden via the Loen Skylift. The Skylift is a large gondola supported by only two towers, one at the beginning and one at the end. On the ride up, the angle of the lines is such that one is essentially hauled straight up a good portion of the cliff, providing quite a sensation of the heights. The top of the Skylift has a restaurant with an extraordinary view, and a ledge frequented by people wearing squirrel wingsuits to launch into the void, for what must be the mother of all adrenaline rushes. We witnessed several people preparing to make the leap, and I cannot say I was inspired to attempt such foolishness myself.
Seeking adventures on a somewhat less exciting scale, I had it in mind to walk up one of the peaks that is several kilometers from the top of the Skylift. Not long after setting off, we encountered more or less continuous snow cover, and it was clear that the route to the peak I wanted to ascend was steep and snowy enough that it would be dangerous without axe and crampons. Lacking such helpful instruments, I noticed a rock band that looked possible to climb up and around the steepest of the snow, but my wife put her foot down firmly and informed me she was not at all interested in such things, but that I was welcome to head up myself if I wanted. My two boys also demurred. Feeling that common sense might be percolating through the rest of my family, I gave up the idea and we set our sights on a somewhat closer, and reasonably safer overlook in a different direction. Along the way I discovered this small tarn, and I was captivated by the abrupt phase transition from solid to liquid that divides the frame.
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When I visited this spot back in 2014 and 2017, there was more water flowing and the left had side was moist with and a bright white. It has turned grey as it dried up. I like seeing the transition back to life and colors from left to right in this photograph. The right side of the picture in the first comment below shows how different and vibrant it was back in 2017. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, October 2024
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Autumn changes to winter early in the Grand Tetons. On this day the cottonwoods are losing the last of their leaves as an early snowstorm dusts the peaks. From left to right the two peaks close together are South Teton and Cloudveil Dome, then Nez Perce and Middle Teton. The big peak to the right of the saddle is Grand Teton and to its right are two more peaks obscured by clouds - Mt Owen and Teewinot Mountain.
Eastern Sierra, California
The clump of aspens on the left, likely genetic clones, have all turned color. Their nearby companions are at various stages of working their way through that transition.
Class 45 D123 “Leicestershire and Derbyshire Yeomanry” Built at Crewe in 1961 facing the soon to be redundant steam locomotive. A recreation of a scene that would have happened in 1968. This happily is the GCR railway where both Steam and Diesel have been preserved to working order.
Fall to Winter,
the days grow short,
and sunlight more rare
Every splash of light
through the cloud shrouded sky
lifts the spirits
for a moment.
Giving thanks for those moments.
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