Red Filter
In my MSU days when I was shooting on 35mm film my favorite setup was TMAX black+white film with a red filter on the camera. I thought this gave landscapes a kind of … “ansel adamsy” type effect. When I transitioned into digital, one downside was my loss of this effect. I tried...
Read MoreFlowers
When you think of spring flowers on trees I would expect things come to mind like Dogwood, Redbud, or the ever so popular Bradford Pear. But pretty much every tree flowers in one way or another… it has to in order to perpetuate it’s species. It’s just that not all of them do it in...
Read MorePlanting Pines
How many times have I wrote about planting trees? Probably too many, yet I continue to plant and continue to write about it. The weekend turned out to be relatively nice, so on Sunday I planted a little over half of the MDC seedlings I ordered this year (125 trees). For this round of planting I...
Read MoreTree Season
It’s March and for me that means just one thing… time to plant trees! Most years I stick mainly to the cheapo bundles of seedlings available from the Missouri Conservation Dpt…stuff like White, Loblolly, and the pine from which that this website gets its name…the Shortleaf....
Read MoreTree Facts #4 – Dawn Redwood
There are 3 species of Redwood trees and just about everyone is familiar with two of them. The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the overall largest tree species on earth, and the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is world’s tallest tree species. The third redwood, which...
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