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I love it when I look out in the morning and see this. It means everything is covered in beautiful dewdrops and draped with jeweled spider webs!
This is my take on the beautiful 'lone tree' situated in Lake Wanaka. I shot this exposure over a few minutes and was shocked at how still the birds were in the tree. There was in fact a large moon in the sky that night so I decided to shoot the moon separately and add a little more impact to the image.
Late afternoon sun in December provides some very harsh light that makes interesting shadows on these pine trees.
The Tree of Life is a massive man-made creation with 325
carvings on the trunk at Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida
(5 more must see 'magic tree' photos in the comments)
disney.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life
Short time-lapse video of its construction:
disney.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_of_Life?file=Time-Lapse_Watch_...
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Development and Construction:
The Tree of Life is a sculpted 14-story (145-foot tall), 50-foot wide tree. It is the centerpiece and icon in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park since it opened on April 22, 1998.
The Tree of Life was not the first choice of an icon for the park. Earlier concepts involved utilizing Noah's Ark as an icon. Another idea was to have a three-leveled carousel attraction featuring animals of land, sea and sky as a central icon, though this was seen as too whimsical.
When the idea of the Tree of Life was settled upon, engineers struggled on how to construct it to meet the demands of Florida's hurricane weather. A structure reminiscent of a geodesic dome for the canopy was one idea that was proposed. Eventually it was settled to utilize an oil rig as the base skeleton of the tree's trunk. It was capable of holding up the massive weight of the tree and its branches and it's wide base could hold a theater.
Incredible fact: The Tree of Life is topped with more than 103,000 translucent, five-shades-of-green leaves that were individually placed and they actually blow in the wind.
Tree, Soberanes Canyon. Big Sur Coast, California. July 24, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A lone tree at the base of rugged Soberanes Canyon
The Soberanes Canyon and Creek area of the upper Big Sur coast is, to me, a particularly interesting spot. Here in one place are a number of the characteristic features of this coastline: rocky sea stacks, rigged shoreline backed by coastal bluffs, big surf, beaches, a coastal valley leading steeply up into the mountains, and, of course, fog. It is a popular place, and there are often many cars stopped here. Some people park and head toward the ocean, while others head away and climb up the canyon.
The canyon leading up and away from the coast has intrigued me for a long time, though it wasn't until relatively recently that I began to explore the area more carefully. One of the first things I realized about this canyon is that it can create some special conditions of light and atmosphere in the morning. Mornings are often a bit tricky on this coast, since if faces west and the sun rises behind tall mountains to the east. However, when the conditions are right, as the sun tops the high ridge the light often comes down into the canyon and backlights the coastal haze, obscuring the details of the canyon and sometimes creating a mystical quality.
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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I've seen many pictures of this tree in Lyme Park which has a beautiful and distinctive shape in silhouette. I read on one of my contacts shots, that one of the beautiful trees up here may be chopped down in spring (it may be rotten) and hope I it isn't this one.
I took rather a lot of shots and couldn't decide on the best composition - this one or a tighter crop of it, a more central placement of the tree or the tighter square image below. In the end I liked the feeling of space on the one above but have included a square crop below.
Life and death in the trees. This is from an area that had a burn a couple of years ago. I liked the contrast between the dead tops and the lush green tops. Hope everyone has a great weekend of photography.
Tree Nymph (Idea leuconoe), a.k.a. as Paper Kite, Rice Paper and Large Tree Nymph. Found in SE Asia. Taken at the Butterfly Rainforest of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville.
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Some black and white impressions of some trees in my homeland
Hasselblad 500 C/M
Carl Zeiss C 4/40 Distagon
CFV-50c
Happy Tree Tuesday!
Camera: Fuji Instax Mini 50s
Location: Beacon Rock State Park - Columbia River Gorge, Washington
Series: Tree Tuesday
Instant film is a blast to shoot with. I really need to make it a point to do shoot it more often. Took a friend's Instax Mini 50s on a recent trip to the Columbia River Gorge. Similar to developing black and white film at home, the magic of watching an instant exposure develop before your eyes never gets old.
11/28-09 EXPLORE!! #210
The snow on the trees in the mountains was just magnificent with beautiful blue skys and sunny weather. These are firs or nobles--most likely nobles--too big for my house.
National Tree Week - Sat 23rd November to Sun 1st December 2013
One from the Spring from a field behind Ashes Farm, Culross, Fife with the sun going down behind the Ochil Hills.
Most of you, who have visited my stream before, know that I love trees. There are an endless variety of shapes, sizes, colours and groupings.....all beautiful in their own way. They clean the air, provide nutrients for the earth, homes for a mulititude of feathered, furry, slimy and creepy critters.....as well as shelter and warmth for humans. When you spend time under them, if you really quiet your own frenzied thoughts, you can almost hear them breath, and can sense their spirit.
So it saddens me to my core to see the rape of the forests on Vancouver Island. The huge clear cuts and shoddy logging practices are devastating our once sustainable forests. Our motto used to be: " Forests for the Future" . Now it's just "cut as fast as you can, ship the raw logs off to be manufactured elsewhere, and don't worry about the future."
Greed rules the planet. We must start to realize that everything alive contains a sacred Lifeforce.....and value that.
Lonely tree on the top of Mam Tor in the UK Peak District, back-lit through the sun and rain.
The tree's set back about 10-15 metres from all the other trees there, you can see how it stands alone in the previous shot. As Dave pointed out it's quite eye-catching and you end up noticing all the time when you look up at the peak.