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When the Cypress Trees change color it makes me want to capture this scene every time I visit the Gardens.
The Cypress Tunnel leading to the abandoned Coast Guard Receiving Station is one of the most popular photographic spots within the Point Reyes National Preserve. The trees were planted in 1930 and over the years have created a canopy that covers the road leading up to the station.
Point Reyes National Seashore is one of the most diverse spots along the Northern California Coastline. Where else within a single day, can you observe tule elk, elephant seals, a lighthouse, historic dairy farms, an oyster farm, abandoned ranches, old defunct coast guard buildings, and lagoons bursting with waterfowl, all of them within a beautiful setting that is influenced and dominated by the mighty Pacific Ocean?
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Point Reyes National Seashore CA
Appearing to lean into the sunset, a single tree in a grove of cypress trees seems to be getting a closer look.
San Mateo Coast, California
A more "classic" shot of Val d'Orcia...beautiful, but sadly the sky was awful! Clouds were literally a mess, the long exposure helped smoothing them out, but there was no color except for that sickly orange strip :P
I'm planning to go back in the next moths, hoping for a better sunset or for a clear night sky ;)
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Monterey Cypress, Fog. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A gnarled Monterey Cypress tree tops a rocky promontory on a foggy morning at Point Lobos.
Finally, this should be the last in the four-photograph series of images that focus on this gnarled and weathered tree standing on top of a rocky prominence along the exposed north shore of Point Lobos. The tree is always impressive, but I was fortunate to catch it on a morning when persistent coastal fog was thinning and creating glowing light that was just slightly directional.
Of the four interpretations of this scene, this one fits with the earlier portrait-mode version as one of the two most conventional views. In both cases the tree is clearly the primary subject, more tightly framed in the portrait mode interpretation and including a bit more background in this landscape mode version. (The other two used wider formats and included additional elements of the larger scene — a clearer view of the white rocks and cormorants in one case, and some nearby trees in the other.)
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I thought these cypress knees make for a really cool perch for this small bird. The purpose of the knees is unknown, but many theories abound:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_knee
I am stumped as to what kind of bird this is. I searched all my resources and could not find a match. If you know, please respond in the comments. I am sure it is common as I have seen them in several locations. A couple of guesses on my part are yellow rumped warbler or maybe a black-whiskered vireo? I am really bad at id'ing the little guys!
Many kind thanks to Denis for a positive id - A palm warbler in winter (non-breeding) colors!
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A cypress knee is a distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae. Their function is unknown, but they are generally seen on trees growing in swamps. Some current hypotheses state that they might help to aerate the tree's roots, create a barrier to catch sediment and reduce erosion, assist in anchoring the tree in the soft and muddy soil, or any combination thereof.
Wikipedia.
Taken at the park on Nolin Lake in Wax Kentucky.
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Cypress knees are cone-shaped structures that grow vertically from the roots of the tree where the roots are at the soil/sediment surface. The most likely function of the knees is to provide stability in the swamp substrate.
Rouge cyprès flamboie,
Sous l’étreinte de l’automne,
Vert murmure au loin.
Crimson cypress glows,
In autumn’s tender embrace,
Green whispers afar.
An isolated grove of majestic wind sculpted Cypress trees on the Mendocino coast headlands. A backlit fog bank creeps in before a big winter storm. Mendocino coast North California
This picture, taken at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, Florida shows buds of Bald Cypress bursting into new leaves/needles in early Spring.
Bald Cypress trees are one of the iconic features of many areas in Florida. Like other gymnosperms, pine and hemlock trees for example, they bear cones, and have needle-like leaves. But, unlike most gymnosperms, Bald Cypress drop their leaves in the winter months.
The famous cypress wood in San Quirico d'Orcia,a tuscan icon in Val d'Orcia.
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I'm not sure what it is about cypress trees that fascinate me so. Perhaps it is just that I don't see them very often, since there are none around where I live, but seeing them rise up out of the water with their iconic shape always piques my interest. When we go to west Tennessee to see my wife's mother, I always try to get up to Reelfoot Lake and get a shot or two of the cypress there. Reelfoot Lake itself is pretty remarkable. It was formed when earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 on the New Madrid fault caused the area to subside. Eyewitnesses claimed that the Mississippi River flowed backward for 10-24 hours as it filled up. Check it out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reelfoot_lake
This shot is not HDR. It is a long exposure, 1.6 seconds, taken in low light at 64 ISO.
Towering cypress trees overlook the Quiet Pool at the Philip Johnson-designed Fort Worth Water Gardens, Fort Worth, Texas.
The Monterey Cypress is recognized, world-wide, as the iconic tree of the California Coast. Once one of the rarest trees in the world, naturally found in only two small groves within a few hundred yards of the Pacific Ocean on the Monterey Peninsula and at Point Lobos, it is now planted throughout the world in favorable locations. It seems to thrive in foggy coastal areas, where ocean winds and salty sea spray make it extremely difficult for other species of trees to even survive. In fact, wind abuse sculpts it into the unique and picturesque shape for which it is famous – a strongly contorted growth habit reminiscent of trees found in alpine timberlines.
Records Pond, Laurel Delaware Back in the 1950s when school boys took "Shop" the favorite project was to cut a cypress Knee and turn it into a lamp.
The Lone Cypress overlooking Carmel Bay. The tree is believed to have been seeded 1750 in what was then the Spanish colony of New Spain. However, due to the invasive nature of traditional dendrochronology, the precise age of the tree is unknown and can only be inferred.
Over the centuries the tree has been weathered by the wind and salt spray coming off the Pacific Ocean, gradually altering its appearance. The earliest known depictions of the tree's likeness in paintings and photographs date to the 1880s, which shows the tree with a lush dome-shaped canopy.
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