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I'm a member of the non-profit society, The Barbados Photographic Society. Part of our activities for members includes having field trips for members to go around the island exploring. Sometimes, our field trips veer off into strange territory....
After I ended my short documentary series on the "Fire at Mangrove Pond", my friend and I headed off to our second location. My photography club had an invite and a challenge from one of our members to shoot within his backyard compound. Such a small space but rather rewarding. I was trying to do two thing at once: Shooting still abstracts and shooting video to practice my technique.
Let's get back to rough textures.I just happened to be scouting around back making a closing portion of my wind video when I noticed that the sun had climbed high enough to be hitting this highly textured object. I'm sure you can tell what it is. What does it remind of?
Fun Fact: This image went from one texture to another when someone ordered a canvas print version from me.
Feel free to comment below with your ideas on what some of these things are. Good luck!
Read more about that morning trip in my blog post here, with the full story behind my side project:
If you're interested, I've also made some video there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA90_Bvtanc
To all of you, hope you enjoy the weekend and have an awesome week ahead, wherever you are! Let me know what you think!
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Camera: NIKON D5200
Lens:Nikon 50mm F1.8 G Auto Focus-S Lens (Prime)
Shutter speed: 0.0015625 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO setting: 125
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The shadow stopped me mid-step! Those are the leaves in shadow, see shot below. And those are the astounding rosy pink filaments of the Powderpuff flower, each one dotted with golden pollen. I love my morning walks. What a wonderful way to start the day, camera and lens in hand!
Surinam Powder Puff, Pink Powder Puff, Surinamese Stickpea, Officiers-kwast
Powderpuff, Calliandra surinamensis, a medium-sized flowering tropical tree
Mimosoideae / Mimosaceae
Biscayne Park FL
Rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the lychee, longan, pulasan and mamoncillo.
Alligator Apple blossom, Everglades. (Annona Glabra) This tropical tree is pond apple or alligator apple. When ripe, the yellow fruits are edible, but only for those who enjoy the taste of turpentine. Turtles and alligators feed on pond apples when they fall. The wood is very buoyant and has been used for net floaters and bobbers for fishing lines, earning the tree another name:-corkwood.
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Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree. This tropical tree has a straight tall trunk and its leaves are deciduous in winter. Red flowers with 5 petals appear in the spring before the new foliage. It produces a capsule which, when ripe, contains white fibres like cotton. Its trunk bears spikes to deter attacks by animals. Although its stout trunk suggests that it is useful for timber, its wood is too soft to be very useful.-wiki
Tree at the end of T-Dock, Koror, Republic of Palau.
Camera: Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 530
Lens: Zeiss Tessar 7cm f/3.5
Film: Konica Infrared 750nm, Expired 3/2003
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100, Red Filter
Developer: Kodak HC110 Dilution B, 7 minutes
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I'm a member of the non-profit society, The Barbados Photographic Society. Part of our activities for members includes having field trips for members to go around the island exploring. Sometimes, our field trips veer off into strange territory....
After I ended my short documentary series on the "Fire at Mangrove Pond", my friend and I headed off to our second location. My photography club had an invite and a challenge from one of our members to shoot within his backyard compound. Such a small space but rather rewarding. I was trying to do two thing at once: Shooting still abstracts and shooting video to practice my technique.
Closer still....I made this shot from another shot I took of a leaf. I was sitting in the grass, getting some footage for the video. I noticed there was a leaf facing me but backlit with the beautiful morning sunlight. The rest is history. ;)
Feel free to comment below with your ideas on what some of these things are. Good luck!
Read more about that morning trip in my blog post here, with the full story behind my side project:
If you're interested, I've also made some video there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA90_Bvtanc
To all of you, hope you enjoy the weekend and have an awesome week ahead, wherever you are! Let me know what you think!
Catch me also on:
Website: NickyHighlanderPhoto (dot) Com
Twitter: @nhighlanderfoto
Instagram: @nickyhighlander
Camera: NIKON D5200
Lens:Nikon 50mm F1.8 G Auto Focus-S Lens (Prime)
Shutter speed: 0.0015625 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO setting: 125
© Nicky Highlander Photography 2019
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Photographed at twilight time (the "magic hour") this Palmetto palm tree stands out against a setting sun. The tree (botanical name: Sabal palmetto) is a species of elegant, tall-growing tropical trees in the genus 'Sabal', and subfamily 'Coryphoideae'. Sabal Palmotto palms are identified by their striking spiky-looking leaves in a fan shape. The straight trunks of these tall palm trees can stretch up to 65-70 ft.
Botanical Garden of Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, Cuba.
The 94-hectare botanic garden, 17km east of Cienfuegos, is Cuba's oldest, established in 1901. (Decades later the botanical garden in Havana used its seedlings to found its own green space.) The garden houses 2000 species of trees, including 23 types of bamboo, 65 types of fig and 150 different palms. It was founded by US sugar baron Edwin F Atkins, who initially intended to use it to study different varieties of sugarcane, but instead began planting exotic tropical trees.
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The "Palmenhaus" in the park of Vienna's Versaille, the Royal Imperial Palace of Schönbrunn, seen here through a Super-Multi-Coated Takumar-Zoom 1:4.5/85-210 lens, one of the last lenses in Pentax's screw-mount line-up.
The Palmenhaus is a construction of iron and glass, built in 1882 to house the Emperor's growing collection of tropical and sub-tropical trees and plants. It's still going strong 140 years later!
PENTAX K-1
I love the brilliant gold of the Senna's flowers contrasting so beautifully against its leathery green leaves.The shape of the petals is unusual with them cut out around the central filaments and stamens.
The Cassia tree (Senna fistula) can grow to 25 feet tall and is closely related to the Jerusalem tree and the Redbud tree; which means the underlying roots enrich the soil with Nitrogen that is fixed as Nitrogen fertilizer in the root nodules by Nitrogen fixing bacteria: Nitrogen, that is captured from the atmosphere. The Cassia trees are very tolerant of poor soils and also are very tolerant of salt water spray and are commonly found thriving on sand dunes.
From Asia came the Cassia tree that is also called the "Golden Shower" Tree, "Flowering Senna", "Texas Flowering Senna" and many other names. The Cassia (Senna) tree is a heavy flowering tree or shrub that is cold hardy to zone 8, however, during some years; if the the temperatures drop below 10 degrees F., the tree will freeze to the ground, but will regrow from the roots into a shrub. In the freeze of 1983 at Tifton, GA., the temperatures dropped to zero degrees F. and the Cassia tree did not regrow again.
Cassia fistula, Senna fistula
Golden Senna, Senna candolleana
Magnoliophyta, Magnoliopsida, Fabales, Fabaceae
Caesalpinioideae
Senna
Biscayne Park FL
Looking up into the sky from an underground cave, with the root system of a tropical tree sinking down into the gloom. These caves are very impressive, and rather dangerous due to the risk of collapse during earthquakes. Stalactites are also rather viscious.
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Pink Ceiba, the flowers of the world's fastest growing tree. The inside of its trunk is so soft that it has 4 inch spikes to protect it from predators... giving it its nickname, Monkey Tree, because a agile monkey can climb it!
The Ceiba tree figures an important part in the mythologies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. Several Amazonian tribes of eastern Peru believe deities live in Ceiba tree species throughout the jungle. The Maya civilization believed that Yaaxché, often depicted as a Ceiba trunk, connects the planes of the Underworld (Xibalba), the terrestrial realm and the skies. Unmistakable clusters of thick conical thorns on the Ceiba trunk were reproduced during the Classical Period on ceramic burial urns and incense holders by the southern lowland Maya.
Modern Maya still respectfully leave the tree standing when harvesting forest timber. The Ceiba tree is represented by a cross and serves as an important architectural motif in the Temple of the Cross Complex at Palenque.
Ceiba pentandra produces a light and strong fiber (kapok) used throughout history to fill life preservers, mattresses, pillows, tapestries, and dolls. Kapok has recently been replaced in commercial use by synthetic fibers. The oils of Ceiba seeds are extracted to make soap and fertilizers. The Ceiba continues to be commercialized in Asia especially in Java, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines.
This tiny Florida Skipper is in a perfect power position, pointing to the very sharp... I know all too well... black point of the Century Agave. The spider web completes the third side of this triangle magically.
Despite its appearance and what most of my books say, it seems a Skipper is a butterfly, not a moth. Common Skippers (Hesperiidae) are distinguished from the higher butterflies by their large moth-like bodies, small wings and hooked antennae. Skippers have amazingly large and focused eyes and their bodies look like they're covered with a fine brown dust.
Ceiba crispiflora
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Princeville Makai golf. North shore Kauai, Hawaii, with volcanic slopes as a backdrop. Far from the maddening crowds, where life is easy.
The rambutan (/ræmˈbuːtən/, taxonomic name: Nephelium lappaceum) is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to the Indonesian region, and other regions of tropical Southeast Asia. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the lychee, longan, and mamoncillo.
The name "rambutan" is derived from the Malay word rambut meaning "hair", a reference to the numerous hairy protuberances of the fruit, together with the noun-building suffix -an. Similarly, in Vietnam, it is called chôm chôm (meaning "messy hair")
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The dusky eagle-owl (Ketupa coromanda) is an owl species in the family Strigidae that is widespread in South and Southeast Asia.
The dusky eagle-owl is not deterred by daylight though is largely active at night emerging from its roost shortly before sunset. The species has been seen hunting during the day during cloudy weather.
Dusky eagle owl in dawn light.
We went to this hill top aiming to catch the sunrise, but alas the clouds covered the whole of the eastern sky! some bird photographers were there in full tripods and huge tele-lenses, then we heard the crows of the male bird and some flapping of wings among the foliage of thick tropical trees.
I just joined in and snapped a few shots with my cheap bridge camera #owl #duskyeagleowl
Git Git Waterfall is a beautiful tourist destination in north part of Bali. Gitgit waterfall is located in the plateau area with the height about 35 meters and it is surrounded by tropical tree and emits the constantly natural water debit during the year. Waterfall voice around the charming nature was amazing and it was the separate attraction which can be enjoyed by each visitor who comes to visit. There are some plantations protecting the rain forest around the waterfall and in this place we often met the wild monkey to get the water from this waterfall.
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We planted this lovely, but messy tree, when it was not much larger than its pot. Now, when in full bloom, it nearly fills half the backyard.
These are very large and fragrant flowers with petals 6 or more inches long and so fragrant that I can literally smell it a block away! I love the elongated curvaceous shape of the flowers and the metal-like sepal that connects the flower and stem. Thank heavens I didn't plant Ylang ylang in front of my house as a friend recommended. It would have been overwhelming!
Cananga odorata, the cananga tree, is a tropical tree that originates in Indonesia, which in early 19th century spread to Malaysia and the Philippines. It is valued for the perfume extracted from its flowers, called ylang-ylang, which is an essential oil used in aromatherapy. The tree is also called the fragrant cananga, Macassar-oil plant, or perfume tree. Traditional Polynesian names include Mata‘oi, Mohokoi, Moso‘oi, Moto‘oi, Mokosoi/Mokasoi/Mokohoi.
Women’s fragrances that feature ylang ylang in their composition include Chanel No. 5, Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Ylang & Vanilla, Estee Lauder Private Collection Amber Ylang Ylang, Estee Lauder Amber Ylang Ylang and Givenchy Amarige Ylang Ylang. Perfumes for men that feature ylang ylang include Hermes Bel Ami, Hermes Vanille Galante, Amouage Silver Man, Yves Rocher Samarkande, and CK One Scene.
This photo was featured on UBC Botanical Garden's Botany Photo of the Day on September 20, 2017:
botanyphoto.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/2017/09/cananga-odorata/
Biscayne Park FL
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This fast-growing tropical tree can be found throughout India. It is cultivated for its seeds, flowers and wood.
The edible flowers are used to make an alcoholic drink in the tribal areas in its habitat.
The leaves are eaten by a moth to produce TASSAR SILK, one of the silk varieties with high commercial usage for making women's sarees.
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A mature Madhuca tree full of blossom.
Madhuca longifolia
Family Sapotaceae
Govt. Housing Estate, Behala, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Jacaranda mimosifolia is a sub-tropical tree native to south-central South America that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting violet-colored flowers
The office of the Bob White citrus packing plant in ruins at Barbersville, Florida. Shot in digital infrared. What is still standing is being overrun by the vegetation.
Fruit from our former neighbor's lychee tree (Lichi chinensis), sole member of the genus Lichi in the soapberry family Sapindaceae that includes horse chestnut and maple
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Lychee – 2019JUN06:
The small, round fruit (thin, rough skin covering sweet white scented flesh around a large central stone [seed]) is delicious: Lychee is a tropical tree native to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces of China, where cultivation is documented from 1059 AD; our former neighbor grows these trees in his garden in Florida and brought some to North Carolina to give us!
Unusual, intriguing, memorable! The Cannonball tree is one of my favorite tropical trees with sea-anemone-like flowers whose sweet enticing fragrance can be enjoyed a field away. It has large hard brown fruit that clang like Cannonballs in the tropical forest at night. The flowers don't erupt on the upper branches either but on root-like branches around the base of the trunk! At night the flowers are particularly aromatic to attract swift-flying pollinators including bats. This particular Cannonball tree was collected in 1913 at Jamaica’s Hope Gardens and has flourished here at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden since it was planted in 1938.
According to textual records, Couroupita guianensis trees have been growing in India for at least 3,000 years, where it is so revered that it is often found growing at religious temples. It's possible that it is native to India as well. Part of the Lecythidaceae family, it grows up to 25m (82ft) in height.The majority of Cannonball trees that grow outside their natural environment were planted as botanical curiosities. Their large orange, scarlet and pink flowers form bunches that measure up to 3m in length. The large spherical, woody fruits, which range from 15 to 24cm in diameter, each contain up to 300 seeds.
Cannonball Tree, Ayahuma, Couroupita guianensis
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
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The search for protein. An old man winks at the camera while fishing in the Mekong, surrounded by thick logs of tropical trees stored in the water along the river bank. From my ongoing series 'Along the Mekong', near Chau Doc in the river delta in Southern Vietnam.
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These are incredible flowers from our Firewheel Tree - Stenocarpus sinuatus
But this lot look totally disorganised. Very high up in a very tall tree on our property. We actually have 2 on our property in Cairns.
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