Cool trees

I photographed these Giant Fig Trees Roots in Kauai, Hawaii. (This is a Moreton Bay Fig, or Ficus macrophylla -- a Banyan tree native to Australia.) I wanted to emphasis it's massive roots. Their size and sprawling nature were accentuated by forced perspective, achieved through using a wide angle lens (17mm, or 24mm equivalent). Including the round lava rocks in the foreground also adds interest. See how large these roots are next to a human…

Biltmore NC June 2017

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It turns out you don't need to travel to the Portland Japanese Garden to find cool Japanese maple trees to photograph. This is from today in Kubota Garden. Looks a lot better when you press L.

Around Cherrapunji in northeast India there are "living root bridges", a form of tree shaping, which are simple suspension bridges made of living tree roots of some suitable species such as Ficus elastica growing alongside the gap to be bridged, by gradually training some of its roots to grow across the gap until they take root on the other side. There are examples with a span of over 100 feet (30 meters). Some are thought to be more than 500 years old

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