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.
I would like to take a moment to explain my reduced activity here on Flickr. I work in a prepress/advertising environment which gets crazy busy during the Christmas season, I have been working 12 hr shifts and haven't been able to spend as much time Flickering as I usually do. I will be heading out to shoot saturday night but I have vowed to spend all day Sunday catching up!! Please be patient with my busy schedule. Man am I looking forward to the new year when things usually slow down a little. :)
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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.
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.
Happy Bokeh Wednesday!
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© Melissa Post 2020
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
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Photo Taken at The Glass Slipper
Juniper berries are best known for flavouring gin and for getting birds drunk in early winter. Do you sense a theme here?
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."
Bonsai in training.
22 April 2022
'Roid Week Spring 2022, day 3/2
Polaroid SX-70 BW film and SX-70 OneStep (rainbow) camera.
Back home now after a wonderful break up in Scotland. This is Barton Grange Marina near home and the sky looked quite interesting just before sunset, so I nipped here to catch the reflections in the waters of the Marina.
This is a very popular spot with the Canal Boats moored up alongside the Garden Centre and the "Flower Bowl" Entertainment Centre with is large domed grass roof. There is a Cinema, Restaurant, Crazy Golf, Curling Rink and other fun things to do here.
Cress Creek, Idaho
This very plain songbird resides only in semi-arid, juniper dominated woodlands in the American Inter-Mountain West.
An old, living tree along the trail, interestingly twisted and offering some safety by a sheer cliff.
Hope you have enjoyed your weekend my friends!
"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.
A beautiful, ancient, gnarled Juniper tree with a twisted trunk. Their trunk expands in width by an incredibly miniscule 0.05 inches (0.127 cm) or even less per year. The completely twisted, spiralized trunk, deep bark furrows, and large exposed base are all classic indicators of an advanced age. Based on similar documented old-growth specimens found along the canyon rims of of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, this individual tree is estimated to be between 300 and 700+ years old
When water is dangerously scarce, these juniper trees can shut off nutrients to specific limbs to save the rest of the tree. The bark and tissue connected to that specific branch die off, leaving a bare, twisted strip of wood, which is why old junipers look partially dead with beautiful, gnarled wood as it is an active survival tactic to minimize the total amount of leaves the root system can support.
Utah junipers do not rely on just one way to find water. They grow two entirely distinct root systems: Deep Taproots and Shallow Lateral Roots . They send a primary taproot down up to 25 feet (7.6 meters) or more through rock crevices to reach deep, hidden groundwater. Plus they spread out a massive network of shallow roots just below the soil surface, extending up to 100 feet (30 meters) away from the trunk. This allows them to instantly absorb even the smallest amount of moisture from light desert rain showers before it evaporates. Unlike broadleaf trees that lose a lot of water through their leaves, juniper trees have a highly optimized foliage. Their leaves are tiny, overlapping scales coated with a thick, waxy substance which covers them to lock moisture inside and prevent evaporation. During extended dry spells, these trees can enter a state of semi-dormancy. It slows its metabolism down to a near-halt, stopping growth completely until rainfall returns.