Photography – Tree for Friday

Posted on January 9, 2009 by under Arts & Literature, Scholars & Rogues [ Comments: 9 ]
Fog

Fog

Today’s passage is brief, but these few words just tickled me.

Moby Dicks of the vegetable kingdom – Richard Preston, The Wild Trees

I hope you have enjoyed a week of trees to start your new year. See you next week.


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9 Comments

  1. Russ Wellen, January 9, 2009 at 7:16 am :

    Enchanting, like the whole series.

    Re fog, here’s what Steve Coll of the New Yorker writes about fog in Pakistan, from where he’s currently reporting:

    This is the time of year when cold dense fogs descend on northern India and eastern Pakistan. They have a wonderful quality about them – wet, billowy, pervasive, chilling. They’re fogs of the sort you imagine gripped Edwardian London – they smell of smoke and factory pollutants. Perhaps it would be unhealthy to revel in them for years on end, but surely a few days here and there can do no harm.


  2. Dawn, January 9, 2009 at 7:36 am :

    There is a magic to fog. Thanks for sharing that passage from Coll. He uses apt adjectives!


  3. Lex, January 9, 2009 at 7:49 am :

    That is an absolutely outstanding picture, Dawn.


  4. Dr. Slammy, January 9, 2009 at 10:01 am :

    Wow – that almost looks like it’s taken from underwater.


  5. Dr. Denny, January 9, 2009 at 1:39 pm :

    Damn, Dawn. That looks like what I see in the mirror every morning. ;)


  6. M. D. Vaden of Oregon, February 12, 2009 at 6:28 pm :

    Nice effect.

    I’m going to take a guess.

    It’s probably either a western red cedar or a Port Orford cedar.

    I’ll lean to the Port Orford a bit due to the slight droop on the twig ends.

    I know it’s not a western hemlock which would be more layered.

    Cheers,

    MDV


  7. Dawn, February 12, 2009 at 9:52 pm :

    MDV – thanks for dropping by over here! Did you have your trip to the Redwoods this month? Have you written about the trip yet in your blog? I’ll have to go look.


  8. M. D. Vaden of Oregon, February 12, 2009 at 11:18 pm :

    Yes … I made it down there to the Orick / Prairie Creek area about 2 weeks ago. Merely hiking at Prairie Creek redwoods was in mind.

    Then I noticed that the rivers were not all that hgh due to little rain in the past week. So I figured to simply explore a valley I had in mind as a possible Hyperion location. Not to look for the tree – only get a feel for the forest.

    Turns out that the sun offered enough day length to inspire going up a tributary farther, and I happened to locate Hyperion anyway. Spent plenty of time in the water, but quite a while on the hillsides.

    Managed to get a few photos, and the image I posted from my page and albums are the first photos of Hyperion to ever surface online as far as I know.

    Took no tripod because I didn’t know what I was getting into. So no decent shots with me. Got one of myself on the dark side, using my knife stuck into a log as a camera support. But not a good image at all. Am satisfied with the one shot that I’m using though.

    The valley was gorgeous. Moss everywhere, colorful rock in the stream and some fish scooting around Anyhow, it was a cool surprise.

    That’s a bit of feedback that won’t be all on the page.

    Cheers,

    Mario Vaden


  9. Dawn, February 13, 2009 at 7:32 am :

    Mario – terrific picture of Hyperion – what a magic day it must have been for you. Thanks for the inside scoop too.


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