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A Bark Mural |
Beaucalypt |
Brumby |
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Dreamtime Ibis |
Red Ochre |
Red Textures |
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Sap fire |
Shades of Grey |
Tones and Textures 1 |
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Tones and Textures 2 |
Tones and Textures 3 |
Abstract Nature
EUCALYPTS dominate the Australian landscape and have enormous significance for wildlife. Many eucalypts have deciduous bark which often reveals a multi-coloured trunk.
In all species of eucalypts the outermost layer dies each year. In about half of the species this dead layer completely sheds, exposing a new layer of living bark, and the process continues year after year. These are known as the smooth barks. The dead bark may be shed from these trees in large slabs, in ribbons, or in small flakes. Invariably the newly exposed living bark is relatively smooth and brightly coloured but this fades with weathering. Often the dead bark comes off in pieces at various times of the year such that the trunk is mottled depending on the amount of time the newly revealed patches of bark are exposed to weathering.
In many species the smooth bark is uniform over the whole trunk in both texture and colour, in others the bark is mottled, while in a few species, particularly the red gums and the grey gums, the newly exposed smooth bark can be brilliant orange or yellow, fading to greys, the surface texture of which becomes granular with age.
The intricate patterns and textures formed by this process provides a wonderful subject for macro photography for there is no greater artist than nature herself.
EUCALYPTS dominate the Australian landscape and have enormous significance for wildlife. Many eucalypts have deciduous bark which often reveals a multi-coloured trunk.
In all species of eucalypts the outermost layer dies each year. In about half of the species this dead layer completely sheds, exposing a new layer of living bark, and the process continues year after year. These are known as the smooth barks. The dead bark may be shed from these trees in large slabs, in ribbons, or in small flakes. Invariably the newly exposed living bark is relatively smooth and brightly coloured but this fades with weathering. Often the dead bark comes off in pieces at various times of the year such that the trunk is mottled depending on the amount of time the newly revealed patches of bark are exposed to weathering.
In many species the smooth bark is uniform over the whole trunk in both texture and colour, in others the bark is mottled, while in a few species, particularly the red gums and the grey gums, the newly exposed smooth bark can be brilliant orange or yellow, fading to greys, the surface texture of which becomes granular with age.
The intricate patterns and textures formed by this process provides a wonderful subject for macro photography for there is no greater artist than nature herself.
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