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Backlit NZ Natives
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Steve Reekie (LordPotty)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1449 W: 146 N: 3764]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (12035) |
| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-01-26 |
| Categories: Rain Forest |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ-2-S |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/160 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-01-31 15:32 |
| Viewed: 1229 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This is another shot taken in the evening on the Awaroa river.These are two of New Zealands best known podocarps.The fine weeping branches on the right of trhe photo,belong to Rimu,Dacrydium cupressinum,also known as New Zealand Red Pine.
Rimu can grow up to 60 metres tall,with a trunk up to 2 metres in diameter.The bark is very rough and brown,and flakes off in long frayed strips.It is a faily easy tree to identify by bark alone,but the long weeping needles are a dead giveaway,even at a distance.
The other tree leaning out from the riverbank ia a juvenile Kahikatea.Kahikatea,Dacrycarpus dacrydiodes,is New Zealands tallest native tree,growing to over 65 metres.It is also known as white pine.It favours lowland forests,and was once abundent in swam-pland throughout the country.Much of the swampland has now been drained for farming,but Kahikatea still thrives in most regions.Young trees are conical in form,whilst older trees have deep,wide spreading crowns.The bark of mature trees is very hard,dark grey and pocked with 'hammered' dents.
(New Zealands tallest native tree is a Kahikatea,on Mt Pirongia,near my home). |
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Nice shot! You have the right idea going for a backlit image here, but I think the sky really needs to have more detail for it to be truly brilliant IMO. Did you get a polarising filter in the end? That might have helped here I think assuming the sky was blue. Failing that getting closer to branch, either on foot or by zoom would have excluded the sky and given you a more powerful shot I think. Anyway, well captured and an informative note as usual :-D
