Lothar 4 by jcv2
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Yesterday I stopped with the last of a series of three zooming in on what was left of a forest on the Harder Kulm mountain. Today the last one about the consequences of that hurricane Lothar. It's taken on another place, where still a lot of fallen trees obstruct the road. It took me half an hour to advance 100 meters on this road. All those spruces with their tough branches blocking up the road! What a mess! It was quite a wrestling with those spruce branches!
Some trees are fallen down with their roots, but lots of trees have just snapped like matches. That does only happen when the wind is very powerful. Occasionally, nature can be very violent.
Spring. It is weird ('unheimisch') to see the surrounding trees with new leaves while so many other trees have fallen down. Death and life, so close together. It makes me reflect, why is this one still alive and is that other one dead? God knows. He sure does. I believe although I can't understand it.
Minolta X-700 (Fuji Sensia II 100, 70 mm)
Thanks for your attention and your always valuable comments
Comments (8)
logiloglu
a typical sign of Lothar. !!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!
unzy
Excellent shot... I think nature have maybe his own "urbanism plan" because natural fires, storms, etc, seems to participate to the modeling of earth. Perhaps we have a too ideal vision of nature (peace, little birds, wonderful flowers) but this peaceful idea is just in our head, if you look outside earth, outside our atmosphere, the environment is letal for life : extreme radiations, extreme coldness, no air, nothing for life ! The whole univers semms to be letal for life. And earth is made from the same matter as the rest of the univers, and the tru is that in the deep of our mind we know that !we're very small and fragile in front of "the elements". Excellent job and a great idea to show this. Thanks for sharing !
funkandjazz
That's one of the things I love about forests... one sees the full continuum of life, from beginning to end, all in one place. Beautiful shot! :)
cynlee
the powers of nature, choas & circumstance... they will slowly decay & replenish the soil... but interesting analogy you make though, makes me think we're talking of human life
micah_dixon
Nature is truely a great place and very saddening when it's beauty crumbles. Thanks for sharing.
SoulEatar
The circle of life - it's natures way - just glad it was not a town - nice job !
bleachfix
Yes, actually this is a good thing in the broader scheme of things...adding new growth with diversity of smaller trees and introducing a different landscape creates a new forest...natural replenishment!
Raven_427
Wonderful final shot for this series. Death and new-born-live .. so close together :)