Christ Church - Frederica - St. Simons GA
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Photo Of The Day - January 2021
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I looked it up to be sure, but it is Spanish Moss: An epiphyte (as opposed to a parasite), Spanish moss doesn’t take nourishment from trees, instead feeding on whatever happens to be floating by—dust, fog, bird goo, dead tree cells and the bits of moisture and nutrients that collect on its tiny scales. It is most often found on southern live oaks and bald cypress but also lives atop Sweetgum, crepe-myrtles, pines and other varieties of oaks. Its leaves and stems grow pendant-style, and can form hanging structures up to twenty feet long!
Spanish moss got its current name when this perfectly innocent bromeliad got caught up in a long-standing rivalry between two major European powers vying for dominance in the New World. When French explorers asked their Native American guides about it, they were given the name Itla-okla, meaning “tree hair.” The temptation apparently too much to resist, the French started calling it “barbe espagnol,” likening it to the long, scraggly beards of the Spanish conquistadors. The Spaniards tried to get in on the joke, and referred to it as “cabello francés” (French hair), but it seems the nickname didn’t stick. More than 500 years later, it’s probably safe to say that it was the French who got the last laugh. Eventually making its way to similarly humid climes around the world, it traveled to Hawaii, where it is often called “Pele’s hair” (after the Hawaiian goddess), French Polynesia, where it is known as “grandpa’s beard,” and Australia.
Reminds me of good times in St. Simons Island.
Pillar Point-210124-67.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
We both learned something, saw it up in Savanah too. There are also local houses and buildings built from cement and sea shells, call Tabby. Cement weathers and leaves shells exposed.
You truly need to have your own gallery showing with all these printed huge for people to buy because they’re simple stunning!?❤️
This sums up the weather today quite nicely:
'i-love-nature' . . . random moss-art
iP12-mini; live; in-the-field
Regards, splifingate
I know I am replying to my own post, but as I sit here looking at this picture I am amazed that it was taken with my Olympus Digital SLR, which is only 4 mega pixels and looks better then most of my iPhone 12 Pro photos. It just doesn't feel natural using a phone. I have been shooting pictures for nearly 60 years with SLRs.
Aye.
I look-back to past shots from my Canon G3, and feel some-similar....
Regards, splifingate
I suspect that a lot of us really old-timers who started out with cameras which probably seem primitive today, and learned as we went through the years with newer rangefinder or SLR camera models, newer technical improvements, faster films and such, really have a deeper and greater appreciation for what we have available to us today in digital camera technology, than many young people for whom digital photography has always been part of their lives.
How true, I know what I said but I am still amazed at how well iPhones work too. But there something about holding a solid camera and looking and focusing through the lens.
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fujifilm x100t 5.6 1/140 800. Ektachrome 100SW in camera custom profile.
fujifilm x100t 5.6 1/140 800. Ektachrome 100SW in camera custom profile.
I just watched a YouTube video on flower photography using lensbaby lenses and it reminded me of your work. I thought you might be interested in it
One from May 2011 and a visit to the San Siro stadium - official name the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza - in Milan. Here the AC Milan supporters - The Rossoneri - wait for their team to take to the pitch. For the record, AC Milan beat Bologna 1-0.
oh poor little fella. It makes me feel bad for him cause that’s exactly the weather we’re having now. Cold wet and miserable ?