Aces for Bases (Post 1 - Award 2)
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I'm very fortunate to have this tree at my place of work, especially at this time of year. I don't like the cold, nor the short days, but this tree reminds me to keep looking for the positives in every season of life.
we have a few acer trees in the garden and every year I feel compelled to capture their beauty in a photograph, especially early spring and autumn :)
My Acer Palmatum 'Senkaki' has commenced operations for spring and summer, competing against the purple and crimson colours of the surrounding Acers here in my mini Japanese Maple land, at Cherrybrook, in northern Sydney.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon f 2.8. L 100mm macro lens.
Heading out over the wetlands at Alviso, California, taking commuters home to the Central Valley from Silicon Valley.
"Such a hand is said to have been held by Old West folk hero, lawman, and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok when he was murdered. No contemporaneous source records this hand's exact cards, but Frank Wilstach's 1926 book Wild Bill Hickok: The Prince of Pistoleers led to the popular modern conception of the "dead man's hand" as containing pairs of black aces and black eights. In Hickok's case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card."
Leaves after the first frosty night in the autumn.
A not fully developed leaf, hence it has not the typical shape.
I'm not a great Motorhead fan. But one of my favourite bands, Del Amitri always performed a cover of this song in their live show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcZ-ZXAgiDg
Hopefully new album out this year. Rock On! Up The DELS!
On the afternoon of June 25, 2016, an eastbound BNSF coal train snakes along the Missouri River through Lombard Canyon between Toston and Lombard, Montana. Three “elephant-style” EMD SD70ACes are up front, followed by a single ACe pushing on the rear. Below the DPU in the background is Toston Dam.
Acers are one of my favourite trees. They have so much interest from the shape of the leaves to the wonderful changes colours through the seasons. I captured these ones during Spring as they were on the turn to their Summer colour
I had a few backlit images ready to choose from for Smile on Saturday, including this shot of our acer in the garden.
When I checked the challenge, I found that the subject had to be white!
So here is one of my non-entries for Smile on Saturday this week - maybe you are smiling!
A beautiful acer tree and a delightful blue sky.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :)
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It is that time of the year that the Acer having sat in the corner between the house and the fence turns it's leaves from green to a bright orange /red before throwing them all on the floor !!
Acer Palmatum or Japanese Maple is sometimes described as a tree and sometimes as a shrub/plant - to me they are small trees albeit ones like this a semi Bonsai Tree . This one may be in a pot but it has a place in the garden ( but not where the photo is taken ) . I have always liked to see Bonsai Trees , but their care can be challenging which is why I tried collecting Cacti & Succulents instead for quite a few years .
An Acer leaf, soaked with soda after being hydrolized by vinegar, directly printed on an exposed photo paper (by Paterson, 18X24cm, 30 years old, expired).