2020 01 January Walkabouts
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Mother oak on new year's day 2020
Taken with a Sony A7r4 and a SLR Magic 50mm T1.1 Cine lens with a polorizer giving me unintended vignetting.
Tree portraits often require being too close and then hoping to get a good vertical panorama. This is six images with about a 60 or 70 percent overlap. I've found that 20 or even 10 percent overlap works fine for horizontal panoramas, but for vertical ones, a much larger overlap is needed to keep from getting too much distortion. The side effect is that the final crop is usually tall and narrower than I'd like.
much easier to control the lighting when one uses elecricity rather than the sun.
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There is some kind of creature eating the top branches, but not from the topp down, rather from part way down, with the top recovering. In May i'm seeing fresh green at the tip.
From a seedling from the guardian pine.
According to the books, deep don't particularly like to eat spruce; but not only had the nibbled on this guy last year, this year one of the smaller ones must have gotten into rubbing.
There are three pines and 4 spruce hiding here. The pines were from last year, the spruce from several years ago. I had not been paying much attetnion to them and not only are they almost buried in grass, they are also shaded by too many black locust. Images from May will show actions taken to provide more TLC this spring, in addition to dusting with sulfur powder (deer do not like the smell.)
In the middle distence is the pine grove -- one bent tree in front and three smaller ones way back. Also more pines and spruces between the pines, but very small ones at this point. Also more to the sides and behind where the photographer is standing. The black plastic is to keep the growth down in this area until the gazebo is built.
Looks ok now, but in a few months will very much need trimming and cutting back and burning.
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it was a thick layer, but not stiff or brittle. Instead sticky and not coming off easily without damaging the branches. The next day it got up to 50 and it all melted.
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For a few days about a month before and after winter solstice, the rising sun shines directly through the eastern windows to the room with the fireplace mantle. This year's collection is a mix of my own work with some other things.
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