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The last days of winter were cold, windy and damp here. The geese went about their business regardless, of course. It took every slider to chrome, crop and contrast to bring this gray image to life.
The sun's rays burst throungh the cypress trees at Blue Cypress Lake in Indian River County near Vero Beach, Florida.
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Point Lobos, Big Sur, California
A Monterey Cypress stands on a granite outcropping along the Pacific Coast. This is not the Lone Cypress of Pebble Beach fame; that tree keeps its solitary watch a few miles to the north.
As a species the Monterey Cypress was once pretty lonely indeed, with only two small native populations on California's Monterey peninsula, one here at Point Lobos and another near Pebble Beach. The trees are now cultivated in the rest of California as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
A beautiful layer of fog descended on the lake with the new cold spell. The beautiful fall colors, mysterious trees, and solemn stillness make the cypress swamp such an enchanted place. It's been so much fun going out each day in search of new photo compositions.
Happy Monochrome Monday. Cypress knees reflecting in the swamp's still waters. Caddo Lake, Texas, USA, November 2020
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Black and White "antique" treatment of Cypress stand at Lake Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina.
I didn't really have the right lens on for this location. A mid zoom would have been ideal, I had only my wide angle 12-24 and a 200 prime. The cypress stand makes for a great composition by itself at 70-100mm range from the viewing stand at Mattamuskeet. Since I couldn't get that I chose to include the sun peeking over the horizon. The sunrise was not the most colorful, so I found it looked more effective in monotone, but I liked the old-fashion tint best (also experimenting, as I've never used that on a photo before).
The sun reflection is very bright because it is reflecting off the ice on the lake. Larger lakes in North Carolina rarely ice over so this was unusual. It was a bitterly cold morning with winds gusting about 20-30mph, and hard to keep the camera steadied even with the tripod weighted down. I ended up just resting the camera on the ledge of the little viewing stand at the edge of the lake and holding it down during the shot to keep the wind from blurring it.
For other exceptional shots of this cypress stand see:
www.flickr.com/photos/krashsphotos/12210501246/
www.flickr.com/photos/krashsphotos/10753965324/
www.flickr.com/photos/8310992@N04/8248284861/
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Cypress trees sporting fall foliage at Caddo Lake State Park, There were already people on the boardwalk and in kayaks when we arrived. There was almost tripod to tripod there before long. The 'wildlife' mostly had cameras.
With Sargent Cypresses, Hesperocyparis sargentii in foreground,
From West Cuesta Ridge Botanical Area,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
In the distance at left is Hollister Peak, then Cabrillo Peak, Black Hill and at right Morro Rock.
Late afternoon at Lake Martin, Louisiana
Date is April 6, 2022... everytime the camera is shut off it goes to 1/1/2000 and I'm too cheap to send it in for that, too lazy to reset it everytime.
Other trees and shrubs like pond cypress, blackgum, red maple, wax myrtle, and buttonwood are also be found in cypress swamps. Animals like white-tailed deer, minks, raccoons, pileated woodpeckers, purple gallinules, egrets, herons, alligators, frogs, turtles, and snakes are often found as well.
"When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature."
Henry David Thoreau
James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, Moss Beach, California
Sunbeams streak past a century old Monterey Cypress tree growing on the edge of a coastal bluff.
In Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, there are many famous locations for landscape photography, and I think that these are the most photographed cypresses in Italy.
When I've been there the sky was filled with white clouds, and I could catch some movement of the sky with a long exposure.
Cypresses at Sunset. Tuscany. March 2016
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Cypress trees are silhouetted as the sun breaks the horizon at dawn over Blue Cypress Lake near Vero Beach, Florida.
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The frequently photographed drive to a historic RCA radio station at Pt. Reyes planted in around 1930 with Monterey cypress trees. The white Art Deco-style building at the end of the tree tunnel was built between 1929 and 1931. For most of the 20th century, it provided ship to shore communications. Monterey Cypress is one of the few tree species adaptable to the wind and ocean weather conditions of Point Reyes.
Honorable Mention, Masters, Pictorial, Berkeley Camera Club, 1/7/2025