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Thanks Gary. It was difficult on this trail. The park is very dry in the winter which I didn't know, and they apparently did some clean-up making much of the area a tilled-up mess. The light filtering through the canopy onto these palmettos immediately caught my eye, and then after looking for a moment found the viewpoint where the fanned-out palmettos and background dark trees echoed each other and there was my photograph.
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First Light, Myakka Canopy Trail
A new favorite...think you might have stumbled onto the genii locorum of the place and lived to tell the tale.:)
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Per Google: the prevailing character or atmosphere of a place
Definitely my intent! :) Thanks!
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The Cullin, Skye, Scotland
We were very lucky to spend a week on Skye back in October last year. Lucky because it's a beautiful place to visit and lucky just to get away from the day to day grind. This day was amazing - got pelted with large hailstones and amazingly stormy light. The Cullin is the mountain ranges in the distance and the photo was taken from a walk to Camasunary Bay.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...07744de1fa.jpgThe Cullin, Skye by Graham Meek, on Flickr
Chamonix 045N-2, Rodenstock Sironar N 135mm f5.6@f22 and 1/2, 1/4s, Kodak Ektar 100, no filters. Epson V700 scan, colourperfect and lightroom processing.
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Another good one, Meekyman. I always enjoy seeing your work.
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Thanks Mark, that's a really kind thing to say.
Cheers
Graham
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Nice shot Jerry, colors, tilts. Good scanning and processing. I guess colour perfect helps get them right.
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Bryan that canopy is wild! Fuzzy looking! What is it? Something like Spanish Moss? And yes...quite an interesting juxtaposition between this and the sharp Yucca's. Equally thrilling/menacing, but in very different ways. Cool!
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Thank you both! It is indeed Spanish Moss in the trees, but you may be interested to know that the foreground is not Yuccas, though we do occasionally have those around these parts. These are saw palmettos, which grow everywhere in the wilderness areas of south Georgia and Florida. Similar to palmetto trees but with no main trunk; more of a bush. Compared to Yucca, they have no flowering stalks. The sharp leaves are annoying if trying to bushwack through somewhere, and I have seen many snakes in/around them!!