[goatsNdonkey]

Our gigantic Cottonwood tree, earlier this spring, when most of its leaves had finally opened from their buds. Thirty-five years ago, when we bought the place, it was the only large tree near the house, before we began planting pin oaks and tulip trees, and started letting more of the squirrel-planted black walnut's grow up. You wouldn't know that the Cottonwood took a lightning strike about three years ago, would you? The scar down the other side is beginning to heal. It's a miracle tree. Not for surviving lightning, but for making it snow every June.



8 year expired Fujicolor 100
GAF Memo 35EE rangefinder with fixed Chinon 38mm lens
Cropping to eliminate orange band at one end caused by bad film door seals
Some additional adjustment of scan file.


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[CharLac]

Ontario finally coming to life...Poplar Tree

[jacamar]

Our gigantic Cottonwood tree, earlier this spring, when most of its leaves had finally opened from their buds. Thirty-five years ago, when we bought the place, it was the only large tree near the house, before we began planting pin oaks and tulip trees, and started letting more of the squirrel-planted black walnut's grow up. You wouldn't know that the Cottonwood took a lightning strike about three years ago, would you? The scar down the other side is beginning to heal. It's a miracle tree. Not for surviving lightning, but for making it snow every June.



8 year expired Fujicolor 100
GAF Memo 35EE rangefinder with fixed Chinon 38mm lens
Cropping to eliminate orange band at one end caused by bad film door seals
Some additional adjustment of scan file.


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Those film shots do have a special quality.

[goatsNdonkey]

Those film shots do have a special quality.

I alternate between film and digital, though, of course, when one gets c-41 color film developed and scanned to digital files, it becomes kind of a hybrid entity from that point on.

I do find, more and more, that one of my favorite color films is the humble Fujicolor 100. The color hues seem so true to me, reminding me a bit of what comes out of my K10D, especially when the exposures produce not only accurate greens, but also strong reds or blues.

Regarding the cottonwood shot, that tree's leaves are only that shade of green when they have first appeared, and the film (even as expired as it was) has captured it very well. They are a much deeper green now.

Here's a shot from the same roll of newly opened red oak tree leaves:

[paulh]

From late March near Lake Grapevine TX:

[paulh]

Tree in evening light:

[paulh]

[goatsNdonkey]

If, around here, you fail to mow down a black walnut sprout, where some squirrel buried a nut the previous fall, and let it grow for thirty years or so, this might happen:



Phoenix/Cosina AF f/3.5-4.5 19-35mm + Pentax K-R

[paulh]

Peppertree in the park - Super Tak 35/3.5 on K10D:

[timb64]

Very young mangrove (less than 1ft tall)

[KC0PET]

Not sure what this is, some type of Birch? The are found quite a lot along rivers and creeks around here.



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Another of the same tree.

[WPRESTO]

Not sure what this is, some type of Birch? The are found quite a lot along rivers and creeks around here.

That B&W patterned bark looks like sycamore - a really handsome tree species - but the growth habit/shape is not typical. Sycamores tend to have a single tall columnar trunk, but as with most tree species, the shape can be strongly influenced by the and surrounding trees.

[wtlwdwgn]

Color or B&W?

[goatsNdonkey]

Silky Dogwood in flower. The Silky Dogwood is one of the more bush-like members of the dogwood tree genus.



Phoenix/Cosina AF f/3.5-4.5 19-35mm + Pentax K-R + some cropping and pp.

[normhead]

You don't say?



Swallowing Barbed Wire
K-1 mII, A100f2.8 Macro &1.4x-S

I've done a bit of chain saw sharpening due to buried screws and washers that used to hold fence wire in trees. Hint, never cut the trees near a homestead site that's been inhabited over 150 years. The fact that there is no fence there now in no way means their aren't 1 inch washers buried in the tree.