When flying over the jungle and looking down the canopy just looks like one impenetrable solid mass of green. But as this photo shows, from the ground looking up you can see plenty of sky!
Tag Archives: trees This image is typical of the jungle canopy – all the branches and leaves at the top of the trees and barren trunks all the way to the ground. 
[...] couple of days back I posted a photo of the jungle canopy but it was just one tree really. Below is a variation that shows more [...]
[...] my canopy photos have shown (here and here) the canopy in the survey area in Brunei was not particularly dense hence the [...]  I never got to see the bridging crews installing this lake bridging so I’ve no clue how they did it. I know in places the water was over six feet deep so they didn’t wade through it. Usually the foot boards were above the water but the level of the water depended upon the rains,…
[...] In today’s photo, part of my crew head home across a stretch of lake bridging. [...]  After the surveyor cut his line, a ‘bridging crew’ would follow along behind and cut smaller trees to form a walkway, or bridge. Typically three poles wide and nailed together, it made walking the lines considerably easier for the rest of us and in most cases kept our feet dry also. It also meant that relatively few people were actually tromping across the jungle floor.
[...] never got to see the bridging crews installing this lake bridging so I’ve no clue how they did it. I know in places the [...]
[...] there’s no bridging here so either the ground was firm enough that it wasn’t needed or they’re off the line [...]
[...] trekked into the spot in the jungle where we were going to work there were fair amounts of [...]
[...] While the view up through the canopy looks open and airy, the spread of the leaves and the movement of the sun means the light that does reach the jungle floor is heavily filtered and the jungle is quite dark. [...]  I wondered how much of the brickwork the wooden safety barrier was intended to contain, and even how sturdy the boards were. Would they hold a brick falling from the roof or would it plunge on through the boards and onto the sidewalk below? 
Very nice. Here in Bangkok these types of old houses are disappearing fast. I much prefer the old historical buildings as opposed to the modern skyscrapers made of steel and glass.
[...] and Architecture, Daily Photo, Singapore, Slide Scans, Travel PhotographyI’ve no idea where yesterday’s photo was taken but I know that today’s photo shows part of Telok Ayer Street because the street [...]  Yesterday’s photo was a view to the north. Today’s swings around to the north-west. The sun is out of the frame to the left but the patchwork of clouds leads to the grassland under the dark clouds to be bathed in light while the grassland under the blue sky is wrapped in shadow.
[...] moves out to the west, another thunderhead is rising in the east over Miami. Yesterday I posted my view to the west, today it’s my view to the east. Same bank of cloud rendered almost black by the density of [...]  This clump of trees was the furthest point north and west that we went on this trip. My Captain turned opened the throttle and as we started to clear the trees I captured this view of the Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area. This is a view east and if you look really closely you might find the airliner on it’s descent into Miami International Airport. I toyed with the idea of cloning it out but decided to leave it.
[...] White, Daily Photo, Florida, HDR, Landscape Photography, Travel Photography, USA, WaterIf you saw yesterday’s photo you’ll likely recognize the puffy white cloud in the background and the finger of darker [...]  So this is what we were searching for in the clump of trees in the photos Everglades 5 and Everglades 6. I’m not an ornithologist so I’m not going to make an attempt to say what types of birds these are. Birds is good enough for me. 
Look like black vultures to me, probably warming in the morning sun. The ones you saw in the water were probably Anhingas. Lovely image. 
Thanks Kathleen. I did see some Anhingas in the trees, but not drying their wings.
[...] within both this enclosure and a similar one on the other side of the lobby. As mentioned before, I’m not an ornithologist so I’ll just stick with ‘birds’. To finish this image I used Topaz Adjust. You [...]  It looked to us as though the thunder storm ahead was moving away so my pilot set the airboat in motion once more and we bounced across the water and grass towards the clump of trees in the middle of yesterday’s photo. In today’s image you can see how the frequent passing of the airboats has worn a trail through the sawgrass.
[...] 8Posted in Daily Photo, Florida, HDR, Landscape Photography, Travel Photography, USA, WaterThis clump of trees was the furthest point north and west that we went on this trip. My Captain turned opened the [...]  I noticed an observatory on the top of ‘The Villa by Barton G’ as it is now officially titled, originally the Casa Casuarina and more commonly known as the Versace House. I thought it quite curious that there was an observatory here. I doubt there’s still a telescope there and I’d wager the light pollution from the local neighborhood would render all but the brightest stars invisible if there is. |
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by Richard Davis