Showing posts with label eucalyptus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eucalyptus. Show all posts
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Eucalyptus Waking
Greeting the Arizona sun at dawn...
Arid zone of two seasons,
summer and winter, daily waits
nightfall to cool the desert floor.
Respite in which it rehydrates,
nevertheless, usually greeted
each morn on a new date...
With the sun it cannot ignore.
5/27/12
4/19/12
12/1/11
The Texture of Trees
Dead or alive...
The bark and grain of wood is interesting because like fingerprints there are none alike. Each section or piece of every tree has its own lines, irregular and matchless, each original unto themselves. Like people they might share the same characteristics, same species, same height, same width and same age. Even then the wood of each tree will vary depending upon its own experience, what it has been exposed to and where it grew up.
Tree rings tell the story of a life lived just as lines on the face of a person does. They need not be bold and outlined with clarity but with age they multiply and exist as part of the history. Each ring, each line signals the timbre of the year it was created. Was it an abundant year, a year of drought, an ordinary year? Tree rings are the inner part of the tree and although the outer shell can be altered the inner one cannot.
The health and well being of a tree can be measured by its outer shell of bark and telltale inner tree rings. People are like that, if the exterior has been altered, that makes as much a statement as does the interior organs of the body. Some exterior changes are a natural part of life to be embraced as are alterations in the interior.
What lies inside a tree or a person may be terra incognita, unknown and yet to be mapped until it is opened and explored. A tree can be cored for its tree rings just as a human can be opened in small areas to diagram what is inside to reveal its experience, the exposure of its past, its origins and what may be ailing it. One thing is certain, to fell a tree completely in half for study or diagnosis, means death.
The bark and grain of wood is interesting because like fingerprints there are none alike. Each section or piece of every tree has its own lines, irregular and matchless, each original unto themselves. Like people they might share the same characteristics, same species, same height, same width and same age. Even then the wood of each tree will vary depending upon its own experience, what it has been exposed to and where it grew up.
Tree rings tell the story of a life lived just as lines on the face of a person does. They need not be bold and outlined with clarity but with age they multiply and exist as part of the history. Each ring, each line signals the timbre of the year it was created. Was it an abundant year, a year of drought, an ordinary year? Tree rings are the inner part of the tree and although the outer shell can be altered the inner one cannot.The health and well being of a tree can be measured by its outer shell of bark and telltale inner tree rings. People are like that, if the exterior has been altered, that makes as much a statement as does the interior organs of the body. Some exterior changes are a natural part of life to be embraced as are alterations in the interior.
What lies inside a tree or a person may be terra incognita, unknown and yet to be mapped until it is opened and explored. A tree can be cored for its tree rings just as a human can be opened in small areas to diagram what is inside to reveal its experience, the exposure of its past, its origins and what may be ailing it. One thing is certain, to fell a tree completely in half for study or diagnosis, means death.11/15/11
Palm and Eucalyptus Trees
Towering over the oasis...
In the desert during this time of year trees are unappreciated as they regroup their bark and leaves scorched from the searing heat of sizzling summer. We tend to forget their organic presence and the essential utility they provide us the rest of the year. For trees it is a period of reclamation as they soak up the water needed for the next round of triple digit temperatures. Then in the heat we will again fully appreciate any respite of shade they offer. It may only be cylindrical manhole size dots that are the shade of the palms along a sidewalk; even so they offer a spot to hop from one to another to avoid the hot beam of sun. Most welcome are the leafy trees that provide a wide umbrella of shade, whether filtered through a palo verde or the dark cast shade of eucalyptus or cottonwood. Shade is an essential part of desert oasis living and as in everything in life is far better when infused from a natural source like trees. During winter take care of your trees remembering they make your human existence more bearable during summer.
In the desert during this time of year trees are unappreciated as they regroup their bark and leaves scorched from the searing heat of sizzling summer. We tend to forget their organic presence and the essential utility they provide us the rest of the year. For trees it is a period of reclamation as they soak up the water needed for the next round of triple digit temperatures. Then in the heat we will again fully appreciate any respite of shade they offer. It may only be cylindrical manhole size dots that are the shade of the palms along a sidewalk; even so they offer a spot to hop from one to another to avoid the hot beam of sun. Most welcome are the leafy trees that provide a wide umbrella of shade, whether filtered through a palo verde or the dark cast shade of eucalyptus or cottonwood. Shade is an essential part of desert oasis living and as in everything in life is far better when infused from a natural source like trees. During winter take care of your trees remembering they make your human existence more bearable during summer. 11/14/11
So Mama Don't
Take my monochrome away...
Monochrome is an opportunity to make the make the maximum out of the minimum.
I like taking photographs in color since I live in the desert that has unique colors. They burst out of the photograph usually with no or little editing and the pigments call out their hue for the world to view. There is a different challenge though creating interesting photographs in monochrome. Although called monochrome actually by nature of definition you are originating something either from a variation of the same shade of color or in the case of black and white, technically two non-colors.
The challenge is to take what limited amount you have, a variety of shades of a single color (or two contrasting non-colors) and make something interesting, aesthetically pleasing and of beauty. The life lesson is that in a gray world of some distant badlands that has cold dark winters or an outback of hot sandy glaring summers, both dominated by a singular omnipresent color, the variation can be used in ways to gratify and amuse through photography.
Shooting in monochrome, black and white or sepia, provides an opportunity to either imply the beauty of the surroundings or take relatively ordinary things and make them speak for themselves in varying shades of singular or duo tones that contrast with each other. The differences between black and white can be stark or with sepia subtle as well as vice versa.
Sometimes a good monochrome photograph comes along that was actually a technical error. This picture of Mount Eldon I shot in black and white in a hurry and didn't know what I had until I downloaded my photos and realized the exposure was incorrect. I have a similar good quality color photograph of the same view but it is not nearly as interesting as this one.
I like to take a basic monochromatic photograph taken in black and white or sepia and with as little editing as possible bend the base color a little bit to give depth and perspective. That is the challenge of working in contrasting shades of the same color. Occasionally it's difficult to tell if a picture that has had a little cross processing was shot in black and white since it can give the appearance of color hues. It becomes an example of how a photograph composed of one color or two contrasting non-colors can be turned into an object to make life more stimulating and artful.
Monochrome is an opportunity to make the make the maximum out of the minimum.
I like taking photographs in color since I live in the desert that has unique colors. They burst out of the photograph usually with no or little editing and the pigments call out their hue for the world to view. There is a different challenge though creating interesting photographs in monochrome. Although called monochrome actually by nature of definition you are originating something either from a variation of the same shade of color or in the case of black and white, technically two non-colors.
The challenge is to take what limited amount you have, a variety of shades of a single color (or two contrasting non-colors) and make something interesting, aesthetically pleasing and of beauty. The life lesson is that in a gray world of some distant badlands that has cold dark winters or an outback of hot sandy glaring summers, both dominated by a singular omnipresent color, the variation can be used in ways to gratify and amuse through photography.
Shooting in monochrome, black and white or sepia, provides an opportunity to either imply the beauty of the surroundings or take relatively ordinary things and make them speak for themselves in varying shades of singular or duo tones that contrast with each other. The differences between black and white can be stark or with sepia subtle as well as vice versa.Sometimes a good monochrome photograph comes along that was actually a technical error. This picture of Mount Eldon I shot in black and white in a hurry and didn't know what I had until I downloaded my photos and realized the exposure was incorrect. I have a similar good quality color photograph of the same view but it is not nearly as interesting as this one.
I like to take a basic monochromatic photograph taken in black and white or sepia and with as little editing as possible bend the base color a little bit to give depth and perspective. That is the challenge of working in contrasting shades of the same color. Occasionally it's difficult to tell if a picture that has had a little cross processing was shot in black and white since it can give the appearance of color hues. It becomes an example of how a photograph composed of one color or two contrasting non-colors can be turned into an object to make life more stimulating and artful.
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