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Silk tree


Silk tree
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Copyright: Snezana Lukic (Sneza) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 94 W: 30 N: 16] (672)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-06-19
Categories: Trees
Camera: Canon PowerShot A70
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/1000 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): flower(red) [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2005-02-10 3:41
Viewed: 1922
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Silk tree, also known as mimosa, or silky acacia, is a small to medium-sized tree in the pea family (Fabaceae) that can grow up to 20-40 feet tall. The bark is light brown, nearly smooth, and generally thin with lens shaped areas along the stem. The attractive fern-like leaves of mimosa are finely divided, 5-8 inches long by about 3-4 inches wide, and alternate along the stems. Silk tree has showy and fragrant pink flowers, about 1½ inches long, that resemble pom-poms and are arranged in panicles at the ends of branches. Fruits are flat, straw-colored pods about 6 inches long containing light brown oval-shaped seeds about ½ inch in length. Pods ripen in August to September and begin to disintegrate soon after, but remain on the trees into winter.
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Very nice picture Snezana.
Great colours, good POV and details.
The DOF is little shallow , you could have use a smaller apertur, F5.6-F8, and 1/125-1/250 sec instead 2.8 and 1/1000 sec. Good note.
Well done.

Wonderful!
I really love this colours. Very interesting photo. Thank you!

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3316 W: 149 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-02-10 4:12]

Hi Snezana, we have this Silk tree growing at home. In 9 years since we planted it it has grown magnificently. Lovely shade tree in summer and the bare branches in winter are great to let the sun through. It looks so good in summer - until the dead flowers and leaves drop. What a mess in the house and on the decks outside. The seeds bring forth many new plants each year.
I love your photo - the flower is so pretty. You have got the colours right. Well done.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2005-02-10 4:19]

Great picture Snezana! Mimosa - in Polish Mimoza, very famous plant in Poland. One of our greatest poets wrote poem started from phrase 'Autumn starts with Mimoses...'. I like colours and shapes on your picture.

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  • Junim Gold Star Critiquer [C: 66 W: 0 N: 1] (6)
  • [2005-02-25 22:24]

Very beautiful colors.
Good details.
Well done.
Congratulations!

Hello Snezana,

I have an similar photo, but unavailable to TN yet. ;-)

Great shot and composition!

TFS

Is this Albizia julibrissin? I think that that's the cientific name.
Congatulations for the picture! I like the contrast of the flower's colors with the blue, from the sky. Very good photo!

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 4 N: 3262] (14691)
  • [2007-06-02 4:21]

Snezana, I like way you had captured this tree. very good POV and nice composition. TFS Ganesh

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