Bald Cypress

[David Gancarz]

The recent cold snap has turned our Florida cypress tree needles to their deepest red in memory. This with a circular polarizing filter.

Date/Time Original : 2010:12:22 11:27:24
Camera Model Name : NIKON D300
Lens ID : AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
Shutter Speed : 1/125
Aperture : 13.0
ISO : 450
Focal Length : 16.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 24.0 mm)

[Robert Amoruso]

I am in FL too and have noticed that as well. I like the you framed the image so the trunk is coming from a corner and is at a diagonal.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey David,
I'm down here for the holidays too.....and can see the difference! I like the diagonal/////but may crop down a bit to tame the balance of the corners more.

[Jay Gould]

I like it; I am dizzy looking up! :o

[Dave Mills]

I'm not in Florida:( and freezing my butt off in NJ...
I like the image's perspective but agree with Roman's crop idea. Reducing the blank blue area will help due to the large amt of blue pulling my eye to that area...

[Katherine Enns]

hmmm. interesting photograph. however i fear this tree has been injured so badly its not going to recover.

k

[David Gancarz]

hmmm. interesting photograph. however i fear this tree has been injured so badly its not going to recover.

k

No, the tree will be fine. This species is a deciduous conifer and drops its needles each fall. In fact, there is a very large bald cypress on the Grinnell College campus in central Iowa (planted there; that being way out of their natural range). As my botany professor told it, one of the buildings and grounds people was about to cut it down one winter, believing it to be dead. The good professor intervened and explained to them it was just dormant for the winter. :)

[Katherine Enns]

A ha! Trick question on the botany exam for sure. I should have got that and had forgotten, David. Another deciduous one is Larch, we have three species, and yes, the School Board was about to cut them all down one fall. Thanks for reminding me. :o

[David Gancarz]

Indeed. I'm glad you took no offense at my assumptions. I wonder if that cypress at Grinnell is still there ... as I was class of 1976 it has been a long long time. Time does march on.