Roots by photosynthesis

Photography • Abstract • posted on Apr 05, 2014

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Description

The exposed roots of a strelitzia nicolai, which is also known as the Giant White Bird of Paradise. It's related to the more common Bird of Paradise, but (obviously, from the name) grows much bigger - up to 20 feet tall... Please zoom.

Comments (10)

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tofi

1:11PM | Sat, 05 April 2014

Now this is something I haven't seen before! Very unique and a lovely species! Excellent view and texture!

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Faemike55

1:36PM | Sat, 05 April 2014

Impressive information and cool photo

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Hendesse

2:43AM | Sun, 06 April 2014

Fantastic textures and colors. An excellent and very interesting shot!

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SunriseGirl

9:00AM | Sun, 06 April 2014

Very intresting and love the tangle of texture and color here.

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MrsRatbag

10:25AM | Sun, 06 April 2014

Amazing! Well seen, and I'd love to see a 20 ft bird of paradise!

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auntietk

11:33AM | Sun, 06 April 2014

How very interesting! They look almost like peanuts, or grubs, depending upon one's mental scale.

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bmac62

12:44PM | Sun, 06 April 2014

You've got the eye Claude. Fascinating and glad you knew what this was:)

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mtdana

1:00AM | Tue, 08 April 2014

Looks very abstract!!!

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anahata.c

1:30PM | Tue, 15 April 2014

With BIll, you've got the eye for these kinds of shots. Another of your in-the-middle-of-it-all shots, like a closeup of a frenetic dance being staged by tree roots. Powerful light and dark, alternating rhythms, blues against all that brown and beige and bleached yellow, and the lines move like big thick limbs scurrying to get their place in the procession. A fine 'dance' shot; and if we didn't know these were roots---well, we'll we'd probably figure they're 'something' like that, but it could be some extra-terrestrial slugs feeding off their mother...or the tassles of a very heavy scarf worn by trees, to fend off the cold, and found in fairly good shape in a cave somewhere. Powerful capture and articulation. You do this extremely well.

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