GIF and other random natural patterns

While walking in the woods last Sunday I found some wacky and wonderful natural patterns and a passle of GIF.

This tree burned during the Station Fire of August 2009. It stood as a skeleton until 30 months later it snapped during a fierce winter wind storm and fell across a dirt access road. Eventually the forest service cut it up enough to push it off the road. The pattern of annular rings in the stump caught my eye.

E-5 and 14-54 mm mkI lens

Burnt, broken and cut

Another example of fires destruction, a manzaniita. The entire range of the Angeles National Forest is in a slow process of regrowth.

E-5 and 50 mm f/2 lens

Burnt Mananita

And finally, as indicated, a passle of GIF, or Gnats in Flight. It was difficult focusing on the swarming gnats in front of the more contrasting brush beyond so I focused manually. Just for fun.

E-5 and 14-54 m mkI lens at 23 mm

A Pasle of GIF

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Dave
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