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Proud Cypress


Proud Cypress
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Copyright: Hans Spruijt (GreenBaron) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3077 W: 833 N: 10009] (40702)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-10
Categories: Nature, Mood
Camera: Minolta Z1
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-01-09 12:56
Viewed: 1049
Points: 48
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Proud Cypress....

While driving through the beautiful and desolated Peloponnesus you can encounter all kind of nice trees, olive trees oak tree but also this Cypress. I parked my car and wandered trough the olive orchards in this wonderful part of Greece. When I came back to my car and turned around to give a last glimpse on the orchards I realized this cypress stood proud at the edge of the roads, took a picture and went on.

When I came home I found this a nice photo and I posted it for TL. Hope you like this as well and if not please tell me why! Feel welcome to criticize this posting!

PS-talk:
- increased saturation (+15)
- increased contrast (+10)
- removed annoying road sign with clone tool
- cropped
- framed and add text

Cypress

Cypress or Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southeast Greece (Crete, Rhodes), southern Turkey, Cyprus, western Syria, Lebanon and western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in Iran.
It is a medium-sized evergreen tree to 35 m tall, with a conic crown with level branches and variably pendulous branchlets (but see also below under 'Uses' for the differing cultivated variants). It is very long-lived, with some trees reported to be over 1,000 years old.
The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green in colour. The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are ovoid or oblong, 25-40 mm long, with 10-14 scales, green at first, maturing brown about 20-24 months after pollination. The male cones are 3-5 mm long, and release pollen in February-March.
It is moderately susceptible to cypress canker, caused by the fungus Seridium cardinale, and can suffer extensive dieback where this disease is common.
The species name sempervirens comes from the Latin for 'evergreen'.
Mediterranean Cypress has been widely cultivated as an ornamental tree for millennia away from its native range, mainly throughout the central and western Mediterranean region, and in other areas with similar hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters, including California, southwest South Africa and southern Australia). It can also be grown successfully in areas with cooler, moister summers, such as the British Isles, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest (coastal Oregon, Washington and British Columbia). In some areas, particularly the U.S., it is known inaccurately as "Italian Cypress"; although the species is very commonly cultivated in Italy, it is not native there. (Text Wikipedia.com)
ttreen, shelbeesmom, PierreFrigon, cstathoulis, evanrizo, lucbus, cezar62, herkingen, Xalkida, SaraT, perryhooter, inaam, JohnTulip, evgenia has marked this note useful
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Excellent compo, POV and framing, beautiful colours.

TFS,

Andreea

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  • ttreen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1550 W: 119 N: 3630] (14840)
  • [2007-01-09 13:16]

Hi Hans..
I find no wrong with this photo. I love the proud cypress tree standing tall.. and the road leads us right to it!!
Thanks for sharing....

Tricia

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  • kbeall Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 563 W: 112 N: 903] (3548)
  • [2007-01-09 13:23]

Hi Hans,
I can now recognize your work from the thumbnails with your characteristic framing and compositions . . .
Yes, proud is how I would describe this cypress, so proud and determined that the road had to veer around it. I like how the road fills the foreground and quickly disappears, and I love the different textures present, from the grasses to the pointy cypress to the clouds.
Take care,
Karen

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  • limba3 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1099 W: 428 N: 401] (11437)
  • [2007-01-09 14:27]

Hans, wonderful colours, composition. Beautiful photograph.
Anna
TFS

Very good capture. Lovely colors and sharpness.
I very much like the POV specially.
TFS.
Pierre
:) later

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  • Janone Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3446 W: 100 N: 3062] (19668)
  • [2007-01-09 15:07]

Hallo Hans.
Mooi weergegeven foto. Prachtige boom.
Jan

Hi Hans,

What a beautiful greek countryside photo!! So green and luminous, so warm and peaceful! I really like the POV and sharpness here!

Very well done and TFS
Constantinos

Hi Hans.
Complete this work looks great. The frame match very good with the rest of the photo.It has nice light and colors and the text is very informative.

great comp with good lead-in and a perfect focal point, well done, thanx, M, (*_*)

Great find, not only of the tree but love the road leading around the corner and that bright blue sky...looks like a beautiful day for photographing anything!! Haven't seen the sun here for ....I don't know how long!! TFS yours!
Donna :o)


Thanks for your comment and smilie on my photo " Point Gratiot Lighthouse " :o)

Hi Hans,
very nice shot of this tree, very well composed.
merci,

Armel.
...and a happy new year!!!

Great shot Hans, prima comp en mooie kleuren. Door het weggetje een mooie dieptewerking. GG

TFS

Grtz Pim

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  • lucbus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2201 W: 92 N: 1944] (10492)
  • [2007-01-10 6:36]

Hi Hans,
This is a very nice composition with great colors and this long beautiful tree. In my taste the frame is a little bit too much for me since I 'm attracted by it and It removes my attention from the photo, I prefer the more subtils ones. And your photo deserve to be look at.
Greetings.
Luc

Hello Hans!
Very good composition with a high cypress and the curve of the road.
Very good colours,nice photo and i like it too.
Cheers.
Cezar

Hallo Hans,
Een mooi plaatje van de Griekse natuur. In mijn fantasie is Griekenland altijd maar een dor en kaal land. Dit blijkt toch wel heel onjuist te zien. Prachtige bossen en cypres. De cypres steekt mooi af bij de andere kleuren. Ook de lucht heeft prachtige kleuren en vormen.
Arie

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  • jan515 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2489 W: 48 N: 3013] (14304)
  • [2007-01-10 17:09]

Very visual landscape my friend Hans,good framing and good colours.Compliment.
Janusz
**/pt

Very Proud!! My mother has one in her yard about this tall! Can't kill it....can't eat it....HAHAHA! Nice shot Hans!
B-)
Linda
pt

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  • Shogun Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 859 W: 52 N: 415] (10122)
  • [2007-01-11 11:20]

hi hans. nice composition and colors. perfect title for this photo. tfs.

Shogun

Hi Hans

Impressive shot. I like the framing and the fine colors.

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  • SaraT Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 165 W: 0 N: 217] (1155)
  • [2007-01-12 18:22]
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really neat frame
The cypress tree looks so high it could touch the sky.
I also like the sky how the clouds look like there coming out of the mountain
awesome photo
Sara

Hi Hans,
This is a very lovely presentation. The colors are so nice and I really like your frame too.
TFS
Regards,
Lurdes

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  • inaam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1719 W: 5 N: 389] (1376)
  • [2007-01-13 16:51]

Such a beautiful greenry, nice landscape and small road. Nice country side has been picturised in this frame. Tall standing Cypress is really looking proud. Well captured image my friend.

Thanks for sharing it.

Lovely composition Hans. Good colour and detail.
regards Mark

Wonderfull contribute to our Greek friends!
Gereat shot !! TFS
John

Hello, Hans,
I just opened the main page of TL and I saw this photo, proudly standing for Featured Destination Messinia :) Congratulations for that!
What can I say about the photo itself - wonderful composition with road leading to the main object, and nice bright summer colours. When I was in Greece, I was also impressed how cypresses cohabit peacefully with olive trees.
Regards, Evgenia

Hi Hans,

Nice Capture. The model tree is covered with other greenery around but you have really managed it well to show it different and that makes it good.

Well done and Tfs.

With best regards,
Muhammad Usman Ali

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