View allAll Photos Tagged tree
The North Carolina Arboretum (434 acres) is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is open daily except for Christmas Day. There is no admission charge, but some parking fees do apply.
Although the idea for the arboretum stretches back to landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1898, who wished to create an arboretum at the nearby Biltmore Estate, today's arboretum was established by the General Assembly relatively recently, in 1986, as a facility of the University of North Carolina. In 1989 the site was officially designated the North Carolina Arboretum.
The arboretum is still under active development. It includes many hiking and bicycling trails, a bonsai collection, a holly garden, a stream garden, etc., as described below. Its tree collection includes a fine set of Metasequoias planted in 1950, and now said to be the tallest in the south (over 100 feet (30 m) in height).
Riverbank, Cottonwood Trees. Yosemite Valley, California. October 30, 2013. © Copyright 2013 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Cottonwood trees with fall foliage reflected in the calm surface of the Merced River in late afternoon light
It is barely a month after I made this photograph, and the feeling is now more that of winter than of autumn. (Though where I live some autumn leaves are still falling for a few more days.) But back at the end of October I spent two days photographing fall color in Yosemite Valley. Sierra weather can be almost anything at this time of year, but aside from some leftover snow high up along the Valley's walls, down below it was sunny and bright with the warm autumn light that can characterize the season in these mountains.
The main leaf color in the Valley comes from black oak, big leaf maple, cottonwoods, and dogwood, each providing its own variations of color and timing. When I was there the maples were a bit past their peak, and at least some of the dogwoods were still becoming more colorful. It seemed like cottonwoods were very close to their most colorful and the black oaks were also quite good. On the first afternoon I spent some time wandering along a section of the Merced River, photographing the cottonwood trees with the Valley's cliffs as a backdrop and occasionally with the autumn-smooth waters of the Merced reflecting their colors.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
Blog | About | Flickr | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | 500px.com | LinkedIn | Email
Text, photographs, and other media are © Copyright G Dan Mitchell (or others when indicated) and are not in the public domain and may not be used on websites, blogs, or in other media without advance permission from G Dan Mitchell.
Another shot from the dune area near Vogelenzang. The trees have grown askew due to the sea wind that often blows here.
Three trees at Monastery Brow, County Wicklow.
Scots Pines are everywhere really, like a common or garden tree, but they can be so stately as well.
Processed in Topaz 5 using the Lomo 2 filter
HTMT
This picture was made in Photoshop by pushing the RAW file (taken with a Nikon D80 and a Nikkor 18-135mm lens) through DCE Tools ReDynaMix to create a sort of HDR effect.
Macricostas Preserve, Washington, Connecticut.
We took a short walk up to Waramaug Rock and around the Macricostas loop trail and the fall colors were spectacular. And, they didn't really do anything for me photographically, just nice to look at.
These old and rotting trees, however, had a lot of appeal and now that I've looked carefully at the images, I think I'll return to them today and take some more shots of different sides of them.
Not that fall colors aren't part of a decay cycle, but these old trees seem more interesting to me.
A Holiday card design 2009
Available as a Greeting Card at www.zazzle.com/kawaii_christmas_tree_card-137417112872862686
I shot these six coconut trees on the beach, this morning in Santos, Brazil.
Seis árvores tropicais.
Eu fotografei estes seis coqueiros na praia, esta manhã em Santos, Brasil.
The Bengal Almond Tree, Tropical Almond Tree, Indian Almond tree, Badam tree or Terminalia catappa.
EXPLORED! (THANKS TO YOU mskarim)
"Like a solitary tree,
I stand alone,
Wondering,
Which way the wind,
Will blow.
Like a solitary tree,
Amidst a battle field,
No means to protect,
No way to shield.
The cold winds of life,
Of love and war,
Of changing seasons,
And so much more.
But despite all this,
My roots run deep,
Firm in the ground,
I shall not weep.
Strong am I,
A solitary tree,
Learning from all,
That is around me.
Strong am I,
To brace this wind,
If I show courage,
I’m sure to win.
I'll keep those roots,
Firm in the ground,
In those roots,
My soul is found."
Aisha Sherazi
i'm not quite sure how this one turned out like it did -- the second exposure (a closer shot of spanish moss) is incredibly pale in most of the image but then much clearer & darker in places (esp. lower left)... a mystery!
Our next visit next was to Grant Burge winery, Barossa Valley September 4, 2013 Australia.
Grant Burge is a fifth-generation Barossa Vigneron. Throughout his career, Grant has been one of the most respected and innovative forces in the Australian wine industry. The history of the Burge family and their long association with winemaking in the region can be traced back to March 1855, when noted tailor John Burge immigrated to the Barossa from Hillcot, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, England with his wife Eliza and their two sons. With help from his sons Meshach and Henry, John’s farm flourished with wheat, sheep and viticulture. His eldest son Meshach continued the farming tradition and was a prominent community leader. He married Emma in the early 1900s and they had eight children. First-born Percival established the Wilsford Winery in 1916, beginning the Burge winemaking tradition. Percival had two sons, Noel and Colin, and Colin and his wife Nancy had one son, Grant. Following in the footsteps of his father and forefathers before him, Grant now carries the winemaking tradition into the 21st century.
Family Owned
Grant Burge Wines was formed in 1988 by Grant and his wife Helen, and is located in the heart of the Barossa Valley. Continuing the family tradition, Grant and Helen have now brought the sixth generation into the fold. Eldest son Toby is the company’s Vineyard Manager, upholding the premium quality and consistency of fruit produced from the vineyards. Amelia joined the Marketing Department in an assistant role early in 2007, and in late 2008 went out into the world to gain more experience to bring back to the company later on in her career. Trent, the youngest, has been part of the hardworking cellar team at the Illaparra Winery since 2006 and more recently has spent time in the vineyard. All three children share Grant and Helen’s vision to continue this long family tradition of bringing exceptional wines to the world.
“I am a romantic, and I have a real sense of my family history, of my father and grandfather, and what they achieved.” Grant Burge
Taken from and for more info: www.grantburgewines.com.au/about-us/
The island fortress of Spinalonga has seen the face of war many times and has withstood battles and sieges. Unfortunately, these were not the saddest times the island has seen. Long after the cannons grew cold, the island was used as a leper colony, from 1903 to 1957, one of the last active ones in Europe. The fortress that was built to keep intruders out, became a prison, keeping ill people inside for decades.
Obviously the home of an nautical eccentric, draping his tree with ships ropes. Shanklin, Isle of Wight, UK..
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
~Ogden Nash
HBW!