hanging on

Many people around the world feel that winter has taken them on a most unwanted roller coaster ride - whether the conditions include snow, ice, rain, flooding, more flooding, drought, wind, or a combination - the winter of extremes has hit hard.  And the hits keep coming.  It has left some hanging on for dear life, wondering what is coming next.

These trees reflect the extreme conditions in which they have existed for probably hundreds of years.  They hang on because that is in their nature.  It is the way of nature.

The first survivor in the group is a bristlecone pine in Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.  The image was made using Kodachrome 25 slide/transparency film, one of my favorites, and scanned.

A digital image of a Ponderosa pine in El Malpais National Monument

Finally, another slide made with Fujichrome Velvia film, of a Monterey cypress near Carmel, California. 

until next Monday,

DB

a passion for the image