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Uldale Common, our route home from the lakes, often catches beautiful light This old tree comes into leaf each year despite being almost flat out to the ground .A Meadow Pipit landed on top just as the sun came out.
98 shot pano taken at 200 mm f2.8, combines in CS3. I had to compress the photos significantly so CS3 could merge all the photos without crashing. Resulted in some nasty jpeg artifacting in the large version. Next time i'll have to remember to shoot at a lower quality setting
Still practicing the whole pano thing, I think my focus was a bit off on this attempt
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"Waiting for a Message"
Trees help you see slices of sky between branches,
point to things you could never reach.
Trees help you watch the growing happen,
watch blossoms burst then dry,
see shade twist to the pace of a sun,
birds tear at unwilling seeds.
Trees take the eye to where it is,
where it was,
then over to distant hills,
faraway to other places and times,
long ago.
A tree is a lens,
a viewfinder, a window.
I wait below
for a message
of what is yet to come.
- Rochelle Mass
This is the same tree shown in a previous photograph, the one in Brazos Bend State Park (Texas) that is 220 years old. This photo shows more of the typical lengthy horizontal branches of live oaks. I didn't like it as much as the one I put up previously because of the funny little white shed in the background. But it IS a very cool tree!
A much loved Monterey Cypress tree had to be cut down for health and safety reasons but, rather than waste the iconic tree, Dublin City Council commissioned the UK tree sculptor Tommy Craggs to create a work of art from the remaining tree stump.
Chainsaw sculptor Tommy Craggs recycles fallen trees or trees felled for tree management reasons. Some of his works can be purchased but others are permanent installations carved from stumps. Tommy’s work made the news in 2012 when members of the public reported that a "guerrilla sculptor" had carved three stumps in a forest in the UK. They were, in fact, commissioned sculptures created by Tommy Craggs.
The piece shown in my photographs was inspired by the wildlife found in the nature reserve on the nearby Bull Island and in St. Anne’s Public Park.
Bis 1945 befand sich an dieser Linde ein Halseisen, das entfernt wurde, um nicht mehr an die "vergangene Zeit" zu erinnern.
In alten Zeiten sammelte der Dorfhirt frühmorgens die Schafe der Bauern unter der Linde, bevor er mit der Herde auf die Allmende ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmende ) der Dorfgemeinde zog. Der Name "Schafslinde" hat sich aus dieser Zeit erhalten. Sehr wahrscheinlich ist sie mit dem Baum identisch, der auf dem alten Cospedaer Dorfsiegel abgebildet ist.
Alter: mindestens 300 Jahre
Umfang: 5,35 m
gekappt: bei 2, 50 und 9 m
Standort: In der Mitte des Dorfangers, auf einem größeren Rasenstück, mit der Bezeichnung "an den Linden".
Dorfsiegel: Baum im Gras (1842).
Old Winchester Hill, Hampshire.
As far as trees go this isn't the most attractive one around but, the low winter sunlight was shining on it, and with a background of the countryside and blue sky with scudding clouds, drew me to it.
Valiantly surviving in a location one might think no tree could survive, with an onslaught of tourists that could kill a rock!
Ascending the Pacific Crest Trail in the Angeles National Forest towards Mt. Baden-Powell. This was our highest point (9407ft) on this hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in California.
It is nice to see that they have found ways to use old trees.
The park was forced to close for two weeks in February 2014 after Storm Darwin caused 19 trees to fall and work was needed to repair damaged pavements, railings and unblock pathways. But there was some good news … Ssome of the oldest and rarest trees knocked in Limerick’s People’s Park by Storm Darwin are being given a new lease of life by being transformed into works of art.
It is nice to see that they have found ways to use old trees.
The park was forced to close for two weeks in February 2014 after Storm Darwin caused 19 trees to fall and work was needed to repair damaged pavements, railings and unblock pathways. But there was some good news … some of the oldest and rarest trees knocked in Limerick’s People’s Park by Storm Darwin are being given a new lease of life by being transformed into works of art.
Sadly one of the rarest trees in the park, an ornamental tree called a ‘Tetradium Danielli” which was about 80 or 90 years old was destroyed in the storm. The tree in question is commonly called a ‘Bee Bee’ tree as it is covered in late July and August with masses of small white flowers which attracts large numbers of bees as a source of late summer honey. Prk management had a chat with Zambian woodcarver Paradazi Havatyitye and as a result he carved three beautiful bees in the remaining stump.
I was looking for ruins in the woods near the old 1800's Etowah Iron Works in Georgia. Didn't find anything new that I hadn't seen before, but I came across this strange spot that seemed almost like an old home site. It was mostly clear with just this huge old tree spreading its limbs. This area had been mined and cleared of trees (to fire the furnaces) in the 1800s. The woods have grown back up, but not to the size of this goliath, which somehow avoided being cut.
Discovered these inside a rotten hollow tree trunk. There were mushrooms inside and outside of the trunk, a perfect spot for fungi.
Continuing our 395 adventure, we visited the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. These are some of the oldest living organisms in the world. Many were old before the pyramids were built.
A double exposure to say "Nature girl", smiling at us from within the forest. I would have preferred a more mysterious look, w/o the smile, but we will take whatever we get. If our model thinks she is more beautiful smiling, which she is, as is everybody, then it will be a smiling photo. But then, there is always much more light in a smile. And as the saying goes, find the beautiful light and photograph whatever is in it. There you have it. My "Nature Girl" with the light in her smile.