UK Class 334/458/460 - The Junipers
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Here's another composition from my last visit to Joshua Tree. A shot of the Ancient Juniper taken facing north with the glow from the city of Twenty Palms. I have decided to embrace the glow instead of complain about it. :)
I have started saturating my photos a little bit more than usual after I made a few test prints on an Epson 9900 using a custom RGB profile. Those photos I selected to print, seems to be a little weak in color based on the sRGB colorspace which has a much smaller color gamut then the AdobeRGB1998 colorspace which is available on most cameras and I was using for my photos. But, if I then convert to the AdobeRGB1998 colorspace from sRGB I reduce the amount of colors that get clipped down during conversion. My wish on the next "first star" will be to have the profile supported by the web changed to AdobeRGB1998, It would make for a brighter more colorful internet.
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El Sabinar is the last Juniper forest on El Hierro. For hundrets of years they grew distorted because of the strong winds on the island. El Hierro in October 2016.
Lone Juniper tree silhouette provides the foreground to another spectacular sunset over Howe Sound. This is the second photo that I've added to my stream of this composition. I like the glow on the water and the cloud action making this one of my favourites.
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Smith Rock in Central Oregon wears a unique coat of natural beauty. Volcanic tuff thrusts skyward while juniper and sage carpet the ground. A the lazy flowing Crooked River ties it all together.
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Found this little guy up on the Colorado National Monument. First time getting to photograph this cuties. I am wondering if that is a pine nut in his beak.
Blue Star Juniper in our garden.
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Juniper Hairstreak (Callophrys gryneus gryneus) nectaring on Beach plum (Prunus maritima).
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Photo taken Dec 29, 2019. This tree never ceases to inspire me as it is a lone tree, sculpted by the wind, in the most hostile, bitter cold, arid place one can imagine. I relate to Thoreau here..."I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."
-Henry David Thoreau
It is special to discover different birds in our zone, and this is the first winter I've seen this bird. There is a pair here. While we do have the habitat they like (pinyon/juniper woods), their range maps indicate they are scarce here and prefer the milder Arizona/Utah/New Mexico/southern Colorado locations. They are tricky to photograph as they hop and flit around quickly and also have superb camouflage cover in grey-toned tree branches.
Photo taken January 24, 2021
More info here:
"The Juniper Titmouse is a plain gray bird with a prominent black eye and a feisty tuft of feathers on its head. What it lacks in color, it makes up for with attitude, and its scratchy chatter can be heard all year in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the interior West. They are very similar to the Oak Titmouse and were previously considered the same species, the Plain Titmouse, but they live in different habitats."
An adult Osprey busting out the famous “over the shoulder – 1950’s and 60”s high school yearbook pose” this past April.
Taken on the Juniper River, central Florida.
It looks as If I may have caught it with a mouthful!
Juniper berries are best known for flavouring gin and for getting birds drunk in early winter. Do you sense a theme here?
Bonsai in training.
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Polaroid SX-70 BW film and SX-70 OneStep (rainbow) camera.
From yesterday's photo adventure in our back yard! Just the tip of a Juniper Sprig, with a lone Berry. The drop refractions really show the abundance of berries in our trees. The Deer love them too!
An old, living tree along the trail, interestingly twisted and offering some safety by a sheer cliff.
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Juniper Titmouse on the Juniper trees at the City of Rocks, Idaho
"The Juniper Titmouse is a plain gray bird with a prominent black eye and a feisty tuft of feathers on its head. What it lacks in color, it makes up for with attitude, and its scratchy chatter can be heard all year in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the interior West."
The trailhead is at the big juniper and the cairn. The cairns mark the trail. See the next post for a trail marked by cairns
Cress Creek, Idaho
This very plain songbird resides only in semi-arid, juniper dominated woodlands in the American Inter-Mountain West.
Cress Creek, Idaho
This very plain songbird resides only in semi-arid, juniper dominated woodlands in the American Inter-Mountain West.
The female juniper described in the prior photo in my gallery is in the foreground, and the male juniper in that photo is behind her.
One thing to know is that junipers are generally very scrappy, character trees, growing out of rocks and loamy soil. They live on arid cliffs and in extreme cold and windy conditions. These 2 junipers are the exception, in that they both receive abundant water and are very well developed. Deeper in my gallery is a b&w photo of a juniper entitled "First Light" and that is more typical of a juniper in the arid, high altitude western mountains.
Photo was taken early on a beautiful fall morning, Nov 21, 2016
"Sunfire Junipers", Capture at 1/400 sec @F/8.0 ISO 400 ; 38mm on a Sigma 18-250mm F/3.5-6.3 Lens; The sun was at 12.30 position and shining right into this grove of trees beside a road, That had been just cleared 30ft or so back from the edge of the roadway revealing these junipers. They were lit up in such a way they looked like to be on Fire. It was just beautiful makes a photographer's heart ache to own a Medium format camera with a sharp lens to capture the scenes beauty. Malagash, NS 05-06 2020.
Both junipers and piñon pines have been succumbing on the Colorado Plateau in a prolonged drought that has reduced Lake Powell of a mere 21% of its full capacity. I was photographing piñon and juniper ghosts when I found this one. It was special, so I put some extra work into it.
Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness
One of my favorite species of trees, Juniperus osteosperma, common name, Utah Juniper. Larger ones like this one in the photo can be upwards of 700 years old. The berries of Juniper are used to flavor gin. The Native Americans would grind the shaggy bark to make a kind of baby powder. Miners used the wood to make charcoal to smelt the ore for gold and silver. Ranchers used the wood to make fence poles. I like the trees because of their unique character and because they usually are found at 5000 feet elevation and above it means that one is finally rising up above the desert heat!