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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-17-2021, 06:27 AM
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Bald Cypress tree on the shore of Anderson Lake, a floodpalin lake of the Illinois River. In this very long state, this species is only indigenous to swamps in the very southern tip, but will grow if planted next to water up here in the northern half, and is tolerant of flooding, as happens some springs at the site pictured. DA 18-135 WR + K10D, 24mm, f/8.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-28-2020, 09:37 AM
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Treeline behind weedy soybean field.
Spiratone Flat-field f3.5 75mm bellows lens on 10mm extension tube (approx infinity focus), f11 + Pentax K110D.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-06-2020, 03:57 AM
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Could get some good canoe-covering bark from that one!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-05-2020, 07:53 AM
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In Illinois, the Bald Cypress is only indigenous is swampy areas at the very southernmost tip of the state, near the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers. Anywhere else it is seen it was planted, and that includes some drier areas than nature would put it. In my locality, I could show you some examples of Bald Cypresses that have been planted along the Illinois River, and along a floodplain lake of the Illinois River, those do develop the knees on the roots a bit away from the base of the trunk, but both areas aren't just wet, they have seasonal flooding! The first time I knowingly saw Bald Cypresses, they were planted in a drier area, in Will County, south of Chicago. I didn't see the root knees then, and the trees, while younger than the one just pictured here resembled it in form and bark...to the best of my recollection.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-04-2020, 06:05 PM
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It looks a lot like a bald cypress. They have those vertical bulges in the bark, and have that conical shape when grown far enough apart to spread evenly. They grow few if any "knees" on their roots when planted in a dry area. The bald cypress is a deciduous conifer, like the larch (tamarack). Their needles turn red and drop in the fall. I don't know the trees of the world, so it could just be something else with some similar features.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-04-2020, 05:52 PM
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Central tree is a large cottonwood. It was struck by lightning a few years ago, but the scar is healing well, and it's going on and growing.
K110D
Bower/Samyang f3.5 8mm
BW conversion
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-09-2020, 12:06 PM
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Treeline an eighth of a mile up the road.
Super-Takumar f1.8 55mm + Sony NEX-5
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-23-2019, 06:53 PM
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Super-Takumar f/3.5 35mm, shot wide open on a Sony NEX-5 with m42 to Sony E-mount adapter.
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-25-2019, 12:33 PM
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Backlit hickory tree leaflets.
Konica Auto S rangefinder w Konishiroku Hexanon f1.8 47mm + Yellow filter + Arista 100 B&W
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-13-2019, 07:16 AM
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Reduced-sized replica of Lady Liberty located in the park along the Spoon River in London Mills, Illinois.
A large red maple, one of the few obliging the local fall festival, began to turn for a colorful backdrop.
SMC Pentax-DA f/3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL + Pentax K-R dslr
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-09-2019, 07:54 AM
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The state of Tulip Tree fall color here yesterday:
SMC-DA f/3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL + K-R
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-02-2019, 05:47 PM
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We had 98 degree F. heat indexes here two days ago. I'm looking forward to slightly cooler weather.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-30-2019, 07:37 AM
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Icy, the trees.
From the archive of my old Casio QV-R40.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-22-2019, 07:53 AM
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Treeline with vista gap:
Peering between tree trunks:
Looking at the same two trees above from the opposite direction, in winter:
A few more from the 2 decade old 1-megapixel Kodak 3200 archive.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-21-2019, 01:12 PM
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Trees (and tree shadows) with degrees...
...on the campus of Beloit College,
founded in 1846, in Wisconsin.
I haven't bothered to do anything with the purple-fringing in these almost 20 year old artifacts produced by my very first digital camera, a 1-megapixel Kodak DC3200.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-14-2019, 05:19 AM
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Some historic trees on the grounds of the Jubilee College State Historic Site, near Kickapoo, Illinois.
Auto Sears MC f/2.8 28mm + Sears KS1000 (Ricoh XR-1s) + Kodak T400 CN
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-28-2019, 05:14 PM
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New foliage on a honey locust tree
RMC Tokina f/5.6 100-300mm, at f/8
K10D, at iso 400.
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-16-2019, 08:02 AM
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Spring view of black walnut tree in full display of its "I'm the King of the side yard" mode, to which the forest of mostly Pin Oaks and Tulip Trees in the east part of the yard (not pictured) say, "Tisk, tisk, tisk, tisk...."
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2-M early AF auto-exposure point-n-shoot + expired Kodacolor 400 shot at iso 250.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-29-2019, 08:17 AM
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I must bow to any master of pun-tree such as yourself.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-29-2019, 06:58 AM
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Painting tree trunks isn't as pop'lar as it used to be.
;)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-15-2019, 10:34 AM
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The startling and English sparrow might both be because someone, long ago, wanted to have all of the birds mentioned in Shakespeare living in New York City's Central Park.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-13-2019, 09:27 AM
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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.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-11-2019, 06:03 AM
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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
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-03-2019, 05:45 AM
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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:
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