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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #860 on: February 04, 2013, 02:52:02 am »


Thank you very much Mike :), at last I understand what the aspens are. I began some years ago thinking the aspens are betula, more recently concluded they could be populus tremula but I too saw the difference: the trunk of my populus isn't white...

No, Betula sp. is birch, and not all birch have white bark.  Populus tremuloides have a creamy-white/green bark, but Populus grandidentata have more of of an orangey/green bark.  Other poplars like the cottonwoods can vary greatly.  One thing all Populus sp. in North America have in common (except balsam poplar - there's one in every crowd) is a flat leaf stalk or petiole.  This is the stem that goes from the base of the leaf to the branch.  The flat petiole makes the leaves rustle in the breeze, hence names like 'trembling aspen' or 'quaking aspen'.

Okay, that's enough dendrology for the day.

Mike.

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« Reply #861 on: February 04, 2013, 09:35:34 am »

No, Betula sp. is birch, and not all birch have white bark.  Populus tremuloides have a creamy-white/green bark, but Populus grandidentata have more of of an orangey/green bark.  Other poplars like the cottonwoods can vary greatly.  One thing all Populus sp. in North America have in common (except balsam poplar - there's one in every crowd) is a flat leaf stalk or petiole.  This is the stem that goes from the base of the leaf to the branch.  The flat petiole makes the leaves rustle in the breeze, hence names like 'trembling aspen' or 'quaking aspen'.

Okay, that's enough dendrology for the day.

Mike.

Mike.

I'll copy your very useful  lesson in "populology" in order to study it later, as thanks I post the birch (it's a she, a girl) of my hortulus secretus portrayed in july and in october, in the mist and under a snowfall.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #862 on: February 04, 2013, 09:38:24 am »

The autumn colour is lovely. Very nice light, nicely captured.

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« Reply #863 on: February 05, 2013, 02:13:24 am »

The autumn colour is lovely. Very nice light, nicely captured.

Yes.

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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #864 on: February 05, 2013, 04:39:56 am »

How odd I clicked on the file name, rather than the image itself, only to have it open in Photoshop.

One of the attachments in this thread (Tim's) is a PSD file - perhaps that was it?
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #865 on: February 05, 2013, 11:52:11 am »

I like the verdant greens of spring, but winter is running a neck and neck tie...they're all beautiful.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #866 on: February 05, 2013, 11:55:32 am »

Lois, sorry about that it got away from me.  Tim Wolcott
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #867 on: February 06, 2013, 01:48:13 am »

Bump day, boab tree, the Kimberley – Western Australia.



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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #868 on: February 06, 2013, 03:04:39 am »

Cherry
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #869 on: February 06, 2013, 03:21:30 am »

Bump day, boab tree, the Kimberley – Western Australia.



Nice - got to be one the most characterful trees to be founf anywhere.

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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #870 on: February 06, 2013, 03:33:55 am »

Cherry

The really glorious thing about cherry blossom is the colour, isn't it?

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« Reply #871 on: February 06, 2013, 03:58:28 am »

The really glorious thing about cherry blossom is the colour, isn't it?

Jeremy
Certainly for the pink ones, yes! With these white ones, I found myself being delighted by the glorious carpet they had created on the wet grass. The light under the tree was fabulous.

For glorious color in cherries, I'll post another one.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #872 on: February 06, 2013, 04:05:54 am »

Glorious pink cherry.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #873 on: February 06, 2013, 03:08:08 pm »

I like the verdant greens of spring, but winter is running a neck and neck tie...they're all beautiful.


Shooting the green picture last year (not exactly in spring, but in july at 1300m the greens are still fresh) I got (I don't know how) a meniscus inflammation that stopped me until november... and at present I can still hear an ominous "click cluck" coming from the knee...
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #874 on: February 06, 2013, 11:50:14 pm »

Here is couple newer ones  and older ones from Colorado, Maine.  Tim Wolcott

« Last Edit: February 07, 2013, 12:17:47 am by tim wolcott »
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #875 on: February 13, 2013, 02:53:46 pm »



« Last Edit: February 13, 2013, 03:36:19 pm by RobbieV »
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #876 on: February 13, 2013, 03:15:06 pm »

That's awfully small Robbie. Can you post a larger version?
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« Reply #877 on: February 13, 2013, 03:47:31 pm »

Added the wrong link originally. Should work now.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #878 on: February 13, 2013, 10:18:20 pm »




It's an interesting landscape view that is presented in a pretty unusual way - centered as such. I take the subject as being the small tree on the log, and I do wish it would stand out more via the kind of exposure treatment of the whole photo. The unusual framing works pretty well for me, but I think it can be improved over what you have. The scraggly branches in lower right and left don't serve the picture much. This photograph is kind of fun and quirky. I am concerned that the water looks vaguely wrong in color or texture. I don't know why. Overall I do like it.
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Re: Love those Trees
« Reply #879 on: February 14, 2013, 08:02:19 am »

Here is couple newer ones  and older ones from Colorado, Maine.  Tim Wolcott



Another great display. I always enjoy seeing your work and learn from it.

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