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Paris, end Jan 07. Rows and rows of trees lined up around Notre Dame.
Rollei 35 SE, Fujifilm 400 Superia, f/2.8, cloudy
Warren, Connecticut. The trees in our backyard are shrouded in fog again and now that I've realized the photographic possibilities fog offers I'm delighted. Fog both softens a scene and creates a limited color palette which appeals to me in the same way Chinese landscape watercolor washes do. I think I could become a "fog watcher."
Note: this was taken last year but the scene is much the same right now. I like this image better than the ones I just took so I'm posting it.
About the Killing Fields
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970-1975).
Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims. Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a population of around 8 million. In 1979, communist Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.
Cambodian journalist Dith Pran coined the term 'killing fields' during his escape from the regime. A 1984 film, The Killing Fields, tells the story of Dith Pran, played by another Cambodian survivor Haing S. Ngor, and his journey to escape the death camps
About Choeng Ek
Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in.
Walk bout at Barr Lake with just a slip of a view of the walk path that goes out to the gazebo to get a closer look at the eagle nest.
The National Tree of the Philippines.
Illustration produced for Endangered Species International for use on interpretive signs in the Mount Matutum protected landscape in the Philippines.
Materials: Oil on panel. DImensions: 23 5/8 x 33 1/4 in. (60 x 84.5 cm). Inscriptions: Signed and dated at bottom right: m Hobbema/f 1668. Nr. AMAM 1944.52. Bequest of Mrs. F. F. Prentiss, 1944. Sursa: www.oberlin.edu/amam/Hobbema.htm. Nota: Paintings.doc
These trees in a Cambridge park had turned white due to being covered in silky cobwebs produced by millions of caterpillars. Larvae of the Bird-cherry Ermine moth was the cause of this eerie sight!
Dropping down the hill to Lanner Barton and feeling colder than the socks on an Eskimo's washing line.
I should've used the compact camera with its variable and more encompassing focusing, but went for the 450D and focused on the tree on the right to make sure something was in focus.
The 450d only has nine focus points and stray away from them and it seems you get punished with photo duffery. Operator failure is also a factor mind you.
But my next DSLR, when the time comes eventually, will have more focus points and also a flippy flappy rear screen.
Out for a boot round the paths and byways of West Wheal Chiverton again.
On the lane from Trispen to St Allen, at Truthan.
A truly massive tree :-)
Queens Park in Maryborough. We spent some time in this lovely park on the way back from Hervey Bay.
The magnificent Banyan Fig specimen (Ficus Benghalensus) is thought to have been planted as early as the 1870s and is one of the largest in Australia.
maryboroughopenhouse.com.au
Old trees can be fun to photograph, this is no exception. Monte Bello hiking trail, near Palo Alto, CA, Oct. '09.