Postby Maris » 29 Mar 2020, 12:03
Thanks Barry. Sometimes I think Snow Gums are eternal trees. This collection of stumps, a ranger tells me, is the result of a tree loaded up with snow and ice being hit by an intense blizzard. The overweight branches break off and the trunk is overturned and dies. But in the middle of the group is a resurrection, a replacement for the previous tree. The old original lignotuber has sent up a small green bush that, given a couple of hundred years and no fires, will be a splendid Snow Gum.
You are not wrong Mick. I ran out of camera swing movements trying to chase the diagonal front to back Scheimpflug plane. The cut-off in the lower right of the ground glass is exactly where it is hard to see. My Nikkor-W 210mm lens is the old one with the 77mm front so I trust it on 8x10 but twist it too far and it fails. Excuses, excuses.