Back on the discovery trail in front of the Tree of Time (Legend of Korra) because I didn’t want to drive 13 miles north of this spot on a rough dirt road to Patriarch Grove. Next month I will post photos of the Bristlecone Pine trees in Patriarch Grove.

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Everyone have a wonderful day!

I finally took my older sister and nephew to this location last evening and they loved it up there. #TreeofTime

Just playing around with the blue and purple silders in Lightroom.

My sister said that this tree looks like it's giving you the middle finger (branch on far right). Can anybody else see it?

This was a summertime trip to Patriarch Grove. The smoke was so bad in the Owens Valley you couldn't see a mile. So we thought about getting high... high in elevation to escape all the smoke from the nearby wildfires and It worked.

There was just a tiny bit of haze at 11,000 feet high and it felt good to breathe fresh air again. My sister and two nieces liked walking around the ancient trees.

My second try at this location and still not happy with it. But I thought I should post it, instead of it sitting on my camera album. This won’t be my last try at this spot. I’m going to try again at this location until I get something I like.

Yesterday evening on the Discovery Trail (my favorite spot). It’s was really cold for a June night up there. Luckily I had an sweater in my backpack. I tried to edit the photo with the flickr app but it’s not letting me save my edits. Oh well.

Its a photo from April of last year. Because of all the snow we gotten this year, the road has been closed. I can't wait for White Mountain Road to open up.

I don't know what happened with the quality of this photo.

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Bristlecone Pine Tree on the Discovery Trail.

Theresa May told Britain that there was no such thing as a "magic money tree". Apparantly she was mistaken.

The origin of money trees, not uncommon in parts of Yorkshire, are believed to date back to pagan times when people believed mystical spirits lived in trees and by making offerings to the trees people would benefit from wisdom, healing and insight. It is a similar tradition to that of throwing coins into running water, fountains or wishing wells.

But the first recorded instance of a money tree where a fallen branch had coins hammered in seems to date to the 1700’s in Scotland near Argyll. Queen Victoria even mentioned there being one near Gairloch in the Highlands in one of her diary entries.

The belief associated with money trees seems to come from the folklore that you could rid yourself of an illness by hammering a coin into a tree. But conversely if someone took a coin out from one of the trees that they would fall ill. This then evolved with people believing that they would be granted a wish if they drove a coin past the bark into the tree’s wood.

Back at this dead tree again

Okay... none of those lights are mine. There was enough moonlight for the look I was going for so I didn’t do any light painting.

Those lights are from the other people who were up there. The white light on the lower left was from a young couple who was using the light on their iPhone. The red light was from the older guy from Huntington Beach. The orange light was from an older couple from China. The green light... idk know who had a green light. Mostly everyone who was up there this night was polite and courteous, all but this one couple.

Oh well, that’s the way it goes sometimes. #TreeofTime

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30 Second exposure

ISO 400

F 5.6

108 exposures

I thought I should share these vidyas I did a while back, instead of them just living on my iPad. I had the tripod for this camera 😊 it’s like someone is flipping the light on and off.

Edit: that flickering wasn't in the original vidyas and now it's bugging me.

A lucky shot. There is almost always a person in the scene.

I did these timelapses a while back and I thought I should share them with Flickr users instead of just family :) Oh, I forgot the tripod for this camera, so I had to place the camera on the ground and prop of the camera with rocks. Oh well 😐. Uugghhh! That flicker/flashing noise, is bugging me more than it should.

There was a freezing wind blowing in from the north. Turns out a storm was moving in.

Time lapse of the clouds moving fast over this tree coming soon.

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The first time I visited the Angel Oak I was amazed and unprepared but this time I used a tripod captured in RAW. This was processed using Nikon CaptureNX using color control points on the ground of leaves then I used Adobe Lightroom to increase the Recovery and export the final sRGB jpeg.

"The Angel Oak is a Southern live oak tree located in Angel Oak Park, in Charleston, South Carolina on Johns Island, one of South Carolina's Sea Islands. It is estimated to be over 1400 years old, standing 20 m (65 feet) tall, 2.47 m in diameter, and the crown covers an area of 1,580 m² (17,000 square feet). Its longest limb is 27 m (89 feet) in length. The tree and surrounding park have been owned by the city of Charleston since 1991."