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Riverbank, Cottonwood Trees. Yosemite Valley, California. October 30, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Cottonwood trees with fall foliage reflected in the calm surface of the Merced River in late afternoon light
It is barely a month after I made this photograph, and the feeling is now more that of winter than of autumn. (Though where I live some autumn leaves are still falling for a few more days.) But back at the end of October I spent two days photographing fall color in Yosemite Valley. Sierra weather can be almost anything at this time of year, but aside from some leftover snow high up along the Valley's walls, down below it was sunny and bright with the warm autumn light that can characterize the season in these mountains.
The main leaf color in the Valley comes from black oak, big leaf maple, cottonwoods, and dogwood, each providing its own variations of color and timing. When I was there the maples were a bit past their peak, and at least some of the dogwoods were still becoming more colorful. It seemed like cottonwoods were very close to their most colorful and the black oaks were also quite good. On the first afternoon I spent some time wandering along a section of the Merced River, photographing the cottonwood trees with the Valley's cliffs as a backdrop and occasionally with the autumn-smooth waters of the Merced reflecting their colors.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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my son's home.... three households own the ornaments...
artificial trees are back again... they bought one w lights on it already... she says, she just puts it in a closet for the next year :)
putting on each ornament and talking about where and who it came from, and related memories is a good yearly exercise, it seems...
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I made a lot of self portraits while my wife and I were hiking and exploring the Redwoods. I felt that adding the human element gave a better sense of perspective and conveyed the actual size of these massive tree trunks. As I was making this shot, an Australian man walking by stopped to ask me camera-related questions. He had an older DSLR and he showed me his pictures asking, "Why do they all look so dreary and dark?" It was a cloudy/rainy day but his white balance seemed to be setting to fluorescent automatically. I suggested changing his white balance to 'cloudy' and his pictures now showed a 'happy forest.' He thanked me with a "cheers, mate" and was on his way.
I found this tree formation in rural central Ontario. To me it almost looks erotic in how the tree stumps are pressed against each other.
The island fortress of Spinalonga has seen the face of war many times and has withstood battles and sieges. Unfortunately, these were not the saddest times the island has seen. Long after the cannons grew cold, the island was used as a leper colony, from 1903 to 1957, one of the last active ones in Europe. The fortress that was built to keep intruders out, became a prison, keeping ill people inside for decades.
Copyright by Alberto Fanni. All rights reserved. Don't use this image without my permission.... Thank You
It was a bit windy today. Not very warm, maybe 11C when the sun was out. Arriving to the old tree I noticed heavy rain clouds in the distant and they made for a dramatic sky. I only had the 85mm lens with me so this is umpteen (38), photos stitched together.
Live Oak Society (LOS) This oak is also the National Champion on the National Register of Big Trees.
The Society was founded in 1934 by Dr. Edwin Lewis Stephens, the first president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute (now the University of Louisiana in Lafayette). The Society promotes the culture, distribution, preservation and appreciation of the live oak tree, scientifically known as Quercus Virginiana.
Nellie Vin. Black and White.
"A-ah!" - it what I said when I saw this gorgeous big tree in a private property near Lismore, NSW, Australia.
I had to sneak to the property to take just one shot, what is not very good, so I had to tweak it a bit in the photoshop.
Having to say we came there a year ago for a funeral, I thought about this tree: "what a celebration of life!"
Spathodea campanulata, - Спатодея колокольчатая - Тюльпанное дерево
Bignoniaceae
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Tree Swallows winter farther north than any other American swallows and return to their nesting grounds long before other swallows come back.
Brown Creepers are tiny woodland birds with an affinity for the biggest trees they can find. It is the only member of the creeper family, Certhiidae, found in North America and one of the most inconspicuous songbirds on the continent. Look for these little, long-tailed scraps of brown & white spiraling up stout trunks and main branches. When all else fails, their piercing calls can make it much easier to find this hard-to-see, but common species.
Brown Creepers have long, spine-tipped tails, slim bodies, and slender, decurved bills. Streaked brown and buff above, they become well hidden when against a tree trunk where they easily blend into the bark. Their brownish heads show a broad, buffy stripe over the eye (supercilium) with white underparts. Both gender look identical except the male has a slightly longer bill than the female. Total length, of which about half is tail, is 4.7 - 5.5 inches (12 - 14 cm) with a wing span of 6.7 - 7.9 inches (17 - 20 cm). Body weight is a mere 0.2 - 0.4 ounces (5 - 10 g).
Although the Brown Creeper is difficult to detect, its distribution is widespread across mature coniferous or mixed coniferous and deciduous forests, particularly with pine, spruce and fir trees. They can also be found in parks and gardens with appropriate mature trees. Their year-round range extends through the swamps, mountains and forests from southern Alaska to central California, and further south through the western mountain ranges to Mexico and Central America, as well as in similar areas around the Great Lakes to the northeastern United States. During the summer, they extend their breeding range across southern Canada, and in winter they can be found in appropriate habitats throughout the continental United States, though they are missing from the desert southwest and the tropical regions of Florida.
The Brown Creeper spends most of its time spiraling up tree trunks in search of insects, the larvae and eggs. Their main source of food, which they glean from the furrows in bark with their long, downward curved bills. In the winter they maintain the same diet of insects, but may also eat small amounts of seeds and other plant materials.
When hitching up trees the Brown Creeper holds its short legs on either side of its body, with the long, curved claws hooking into the bark, and braces itself with its long, stiff tail. Both feet hop at the same time, making the bird’s head duck after each hop. Because of its specialized anatomy, the Brown Creeper rarely climbs downward: once high in a tree, it flies down to begin a new ascent at the base of a nearby tree...or sometimes the same tree.
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