Photography Now & Then #141
It’s sometimes amazing how fast things grow here in Arkansas.This red maple was one of several relatively slender hardwood trees in a yard full of pine trees when we moved here in 1981. In the first few years, we cleared out the pines, except for a band of trees next to the highway right-of-way, and all but a few hardwood trees. This one is now several feet in circumference, thriving on the long southern growing season.
Now: Red maple over 50 years old, west-central Arkansas, May 21, 2010 (Apple iPhone 6s)
This photo was taken using the iPhone 6s panorama feature, panning from the top of the tree to the bottom. It was then post-processed in PaintShop Pro 2018.
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Fishing Cone, in the West Thumb Geyser Basin, is one of just a few thermal features that I remember from my first visit to Yellowstone in the early 1960s. In the early days of Yellowstone as a national park, Fishing Cone was a geyser that had eruptions as high as 40 feet. Like many other thermal features in the park, it’s characteristics have changed over time and, no longer erupting, it is a hot spring. When we visited in early August, 2010, which was a wet summer after heavy winter snow pack, the cone was submerged under the higher lake level.
Then: Canoe along shore of Lake Yellowstone next to Fishing Cone, West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007
Photography Now & Then Notes:
Series Photos
- The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post. In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
- The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
- Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
- The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.
