Laying Down On The Job by bmac62
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...an ancient Redwood toppled over onto the forest floor now provides sustenance and shelter for new seedlings to take root and grow.
...seen from the splintered base end of the trunk.
...all part of the forest's ecosystem.
Bill
"If A Tree Falls..."
Comments (31)
Fantastic Capture.
You got some great captures Bill, I love the textures here.
when I visited the smaller red wood forest near San Jose, I was very impressed with the beauty.outstanding photography
this is wonderful looking
and a very cool system it is Great capture Bill
Stunning capture Bill. God Bless.
Life does not end, it is only transformed!What a beautiful place, this serie is great!
This is a beautiful illustration of nature at work. Super shot Bill.
nice shot
Not just seedlings but a mouthwatering array of invertebrates! A poke around with a macro could be most rewarding!
Nothing is wasted. Nature is the ultimate recycler! I like the sharp focus on your subject and the delicate ground cover in motion in the slight breeze. A thoroughly satisfying image!
Great capture Bill that looks like it was a big tree..
Great. The closest I have come to seeing these types of trees were the giant Sequoias at Mariposa Grove. Very humbling.
A photographers paradise for sure. Awesome shot.
Looks almost like a troll on all fours. I love the colors in these photographs. I wonder how deep the hole in the ground is? It looks very deep indeed. As for seedlings, I received a small wood barrel with a redwood seed for my birthday 1978. The seedling came up, grew to 1 inch, but unfortunately then died (I don't know why, but it made me quite sad, being a natural California gift). I wish I could get another. Have you looked at the dead wood for insects and other life? Would be interesting to see what's living in/on the wood. Keep up the good work! :-)
Very nice capture.
I wonder when that fell, lovely capture!!
magnificent shot
An amazing capture of nature at work! Outstanding series Bill!
It is such a stunning forest and so is this shot.
A fantastic capture of nature here. Thanks for sharing!
Stunning green color!
That really looks HUGE - what a shot, Bill! It must have fallen some time ago judging by all the plant life growing on it. I love that fern on top of it!
Cycling and recycling. Lovely forest shot, Bill. I was thinking that if a huge redwood falls in the forest, that could provide an echo-system of several decibels.
Wow This is some forest with some awesome big trees and luscious shade as well Def a fav with me and a 10 for the image.......********** Hugs Susan~
still enchanting! loveee the carpet!!!
I'm fascinated by the springy green undergrowth, what a gorgeous place you found!
I'm always amazed at the efficiency and beauty of Nature, especially since a single dead Redwood Tree can become it's own small ecosystem. Gorgeous colors. I really like the sense of calm quietude in this shot as well. Oooh, and ferns! I like those things!
a most complex & fascinating view. I mean, you have the looming opening in the trunk, and the branches shooting out from it, but your pov puts it right in our face, from the base; and it's hunkered right into the treeline, which makes it anything but a normal 'showcase' of the thing: in other word, a photographer's eye at work. And the massive network of the felled trunk suddenly---in this highly 'foreshortened' view (a Renaissance term)---becomes a compacted, with everything crammed into a massive clump. In fact, we can view it like a big 'fortress' going back into the forest. A great angle, Bill, and most unexpected. Also, your eye guided you to the carpet of leaves, which undulates its way like someone put it there as a welcome-mat for the tree. Overall, from the high trees to the rest of the shot, it's a really creative pov of something that reaches well into the back of the shot. Muscular, compacted and of course beautiful. More fine work in this series. (And btw, should you say that you had no choice because there wasn't another convenient place to stand...well it looks like there are other places to stand; but also, one would have to say that your eye chose this because a lot of photographers would pass it by simply because the angle is so difficult. So it's a choice all the same.) Bill, if you're not familiar with 'foreshortening', here's an example (here). It's by Mantagna. It's not the most dramatic, but it at least makes its point for now. In the Renaissance, artists explored f.shortening for all its drama, its unusual sweep, and the illusions it created (illusions equals challenges). In the Mantagna, you see how the body is 'fore-shortened' (shortened-before) and therefore distorted, making it seem as if it were bulkier & more squat than it was. Thereby, it gives the dead Christ a feeling of great & strange mass. So you can see, then, how your shot of the tree trunk creates that same distortion and "condensing of form"---making it an unusually massive presence. That's the power of foreshortening, if you're interested...
Beautiful! I can'tget over the lush ground cover and even a fern growing on top of the fallen redwood!