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Very nice. Did you use a polarizer to get the deep blue sky? I was expecting one of those large trunk trees I saw in Animal Kingdom in DisneyWorld 
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Arlene
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Hi,
It was taken in White Mountains California - the only place in the world you can find them that old. Didn't use a polorizer. You get up that high and that's how the sky looks.
Arlene
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It was taken in White Mountains California - the only place in the world you can find them that old. Didn't use a polorizer. You get up that high and that's how the sky looks.
Arlene
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David Randolph
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hi Arlene...very nice pic...i may be wrong, but isnt the tree called a Bristlecone Pine?It was taken in White Mountains California - the only place in the
world you can find them that old. Didn't use a polorizer. You get
up that high and that's how the sky looks.
Arlene
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Arlene
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hi Arlene...very nice pic...i may be wrong, but isnt the treeIt was taken in White Mountains California - the only place in the
world you can find them that old. Didn't use a polorizer. You get
up that high and that's how the sky looks.
Arlene
http://www.pbase.com/arlene
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called a Bristlecone Pine?
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MarcV
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Simon from beyond the .com
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I recently watched a TV program on Discovery all about the oldest tree and they said it's location was a secret to stop tourists from visiting it. They also said that they chopped a tree down that was similar to age it, and found that THAT was actually older than the 'oldest tree'. Doh!
Charles C Lloyd
Senior Member
Arlene,
Cool picture. I've never even heard of the White Mountains until now and I see where I used to drive past this all the time going from LA to Tahoe. California got all the cool stuff when the cool stuff was being handed out.
Is that tree considered to be alive? I see no foliage on the closest one.
Charles.
Cool picture. I've never even heard of the White Mountains until now and I see where I used to drive past this all the time going from LA to Tahoe. California got all the cool stuff when the cool stuff was being handed out.
Is that tree considered to be alive? I see no foliage on the closest one.
Charles.
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Arlene
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This one was way at the top of the mountain - it's 10,000 feet up. I could hardly breathe. A lot of the trees barely have any foliage on them. When they're bare all the way around - they're probably dead. Most of the younger trees are bare at the top. I guess less foliage, less need for water and hence - able to survive longer.
Arlene
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Arlene
http://www.pbase.com/arlene
Cool picture. I've never even heard of the White Mountains until
now and I see where I used to drive past this all the time going
from LA to Tahoe. California got all the cool stuff when the cool
stuff was being handed out.
Is that tree considered to be alive? I see no foliage on the
closest one.
Charles.
Bjorn B
Well-known member
Great pictures!! That tree certainly looks like it could be Methusela. It is hard to believe that the great age of these trees was unknown until the 50's. The bristlecone pine is facinating in its ability to survive in such harsh settings.
Here are a couple of pictures I took of its cousin Bristlecone Pine, the Pinus Aristata, found right at timberline around 11,000 ft in Colorado last month:
As these trees are know to grow as little as 1/100 inch/year the first is probably well over 1000 years old, but I really have no way of knowing for sure. They are truly amazing nonetheless. I just hope they will be around 1000 years from now. With the amount of bristlecone deadwood I have seen behind the garages of some local residents it is no wonder the exact location of the oldest trees is not advertised.
Best Regards,
Bjorn (Canon D60)
Unedited Copies and Other Bristlecones and Colorado Fall landscapes:
warning original sizes as large as 3.8 mb!
http://www.pbase.com/bjorn_b/colorado_092002&page=5
Here are a couple of pictures I took of its cousin Bristlecone Pine, the Pinus Aristata, found right at timberline around 11,000 ft in Colorado last month:
As these trees are know to grow as little as 1/100 inch/year the first is probably well over 1000 years old, but I really have no way of knowing for sure. They are truly amazing nonetheless. I just hope they will be around 1000 years from now. With the amount of bristlecone deadwood I have seen behind the garages of some local residents it is no wonder the exact location of the oldest trees is not advertised.
Best Regards,
Bjorn (Canon D60)
Unedited Copies and Other Bristlecones and Colorado Fall landscapes:
warning original sizes as large as 3.8 mb!
http://www.pbase.com/bjorn_b/colorado_092002&page=5
Martín Crespo
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Incredib shapes, a truly amazing sculptures. They were witness of the humanity develop.
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davidleegoerndt
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The previous "oldest living tree" was cut down for some unknown reason.
David Goerndt
cool,,
a little older than the oldest ones in australia ,the wallemi pine - about 1000years old,only discovered in 1994 in a area close to sydney that is kept secret , they are actually cultivating it successfully .
there is only full grown 43 trees in existance
a little older than the oldest ones in australia ,the wallemi pine - about 1000years old,only discovered in 1994 in a area close to sydney that is kept secret , they are actually cultivating it successfully .
there is only full grown 43 trees in existance
slicesoflight
Senior Member
Hi Arlene,
Very nice photo - and at that altitude the sky doesn't need a polarlizer
Though I like the look of the single tree better than the expanded version with the second tree in it.
These trees have interesting shapes and live under extereme conditions. I've had the chance to see a few of them in different parts of Utah.
Great information on this site if you are interested. Including the story of how the oldest living tree was cut down with Forest Service approval in what is now Great Basin National park on the Nevada-Utah border
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/Martyr.html
with regards
John
Very nice photo - and at that altitude the sky doesn't need a polarlizer
Though I like the look of the single tree better than the expanded version with the second tree in it.
These trees have interesting shapes and live under extereme conditions. I've had the chance to see a few of them in different parts of Utah.
Great information on this site if you are interested. Including the story of how the oldest living tree was cut down with Forest Service approval in what is now Great Basin National park on the Nevada-Utah border
http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/Martyr.html
with regards
John
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