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11 responses to “Morning March of the Plows”
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This last series of images have a real Group of Seven feel to them. I tried to isolate one of the artists, but you have a combination of them all. Please take this as a compliment. This one I found most intriguing next to "." . Thanks for sharing them.
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Lovely snow, wish I were there in the mountains with you, instead of here in the desert.
The interlacing evergreens and Aspens are amazing. The setting must be on a bifurcation boundary, where the slight differences in environment produce consistent clusters of the two trees, which seem to correlate to the geography. If you took a few other flora pictures at different scales, I’ll bet you would have a nice fractal dimension. (http://ems.gphys.unc.edu/nonlinear/fractals/moreexamples.html)
Also an excellent example emergent phenomenon. Genetic rule sets + environment -> differential tree growth -> overall forest patterning -> ratio conforming to Platonic aesthetic -> your excellent framing of the shot.
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Wow! The large shot of the last one is fantastic! The right hand edge of each cluster is particularly interesting. The Tamarack is generally limited to a band, and almost exclusively so, except for the high-edge bounding a ravine, where the evergreens dominate. Perhaps this has something to do with the dynamics of the wind? Whatever the cause, it must be highly directional, given the consistency of the pattern.
Another possibility that just popped to mind is perhaps the green/yellow category is not across species, but temporal/environmental and we are witnessing a boundary effect on the needle yellowing in a single species. In this case, the transition to yellow is triggered by certain conditions which the environmental band occupied by yellow occupies, to be soon followed by the rest as the mean environmental conditions continue to shift. Do you know if the entire forest in the pictures is of the deciduous species, or are evergreens represented as well?
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What an amazing world we live in! My official guess the two are environmentally classified by soil conditions which are a result of runoff patterns. If only I had fifty lifetimes! Then I might have the time to go figure all these things out by myself!
The Larches are now on my list of things to go see. What time of year was this? I want to get there in thier transition phase.
Thanks for the invigorating photos!
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what a shot… Mesmorizing. Hynotizing. It starts the mind reeling. being an avid mountainer, snowboarder(when time allows)as well as having worked at a resort before, your picture has many gateways to good thoughts.
maesk is your nota a reference to the big air jumper?
For the record my first blog entry ever.
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