Waves Of Green #1
by James Temple
Title
Waves Of Green #1
Artist
James Temple
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Two hundred million years ago, cycads were everywhere. Cycad forests reached from Greenland to Antarctica (though the continents were not where they are now). Pterodactyls flew through them. Big dinosaurs munched on them during the Jurassic period. They were small, stumpy palm-looking trees, known today as Sago Palms. They are now the most commercially grown palm in the world.
I have a number of these beautiful trees in my yard here on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. When a cycad is ready to reproduce, it grows a large colorful cone about a foot wide, rich with pollen or seed. It signals its readiness by radiating heat or sending out attractive odors to pollinators, who travel back and forth. Once fertilized, the seed-rich cone is ripped apart by hungry seed carriers (who've included over the years, not just birds and insects, but dinosaurs, pterosaurs, bats; these trees have been eaten by just about everybody). The plant then sends up a fountain of new fronds out of its center with curled tips. The fronds continue to open as the older ones below them give way to this new birth.
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May 27th, 2019
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Comments (14)
Toni Abdnour
What a happy, freeing image, James! Beautiful photography! l/f/tw
James Temple replied:
Aloha Toni, it's important to be happy right now. Glad my image made you happy. Stay well! James
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the Features Archive discussion as well as any other discussion in which it would fit.
Don Columbus
Congratulations James, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet