Desert Yucca, Grand Canyon

TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
edited July 26, 2009 in Landscapes
I really should find out the real name of these specific Yuccas...


Wonderful company I had walking around Toroweap!, and the guys I was with weren't to bad either:D .
Aaron Nelson

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  • RidgetopRidgetop Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Great light.
    Love that last one. Very nice.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Ridgetop wrote:
    Love that last one. Very nice.
    +1
    15524779-Ti.gif - very nice light!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • sgonensgonen Registered Users Posts: 178 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Great, how did you do #3, are those cob webs?
    Shimon
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Wow, I love these, especially 3. How'd you do that?
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  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Hi Aaron ...... Nice set of pictures........ I really liked the second one.

    597581077_R4FCz-XL.jpg

    Great minds run in the same channel....... rolleyes1.gif azzaro
  • MarcyMarcy Registered Users Posts: 189 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    I think that the 2 shots of the same yucca plant by 2 different people offers a real insight into how photographers view the world - 2 different interpertations of the same scene produce different feelings and results and yet both are very good shots. nice - it is in the eye of the shooter and each gets exceptional results
  • thapamdthapamd Registered Users Posts: 1,722 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Fantastic shots! That 3rd shot is killer! thumb.gif
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Ridgetop wrote:
    Love that last one. Very nice.

    thank you!
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Nikolai wrote:
    +1
    15524779-Ti.gif - very nice light!

    thumb.gif
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    sgonen wrote:
    Great, how did you do #3, are those cob webs?

    yes, webs of some type.

    how? hardest part is moving around until you get the most refection and fire away hoping for the best...(obviously this was the best of a number of shots...)
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    dlplumer wrote:
    Wow, I love these, especially 3. How'd you do that?

    thanks! talk to Yoda...
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Azzaro wrote:
    Hi Aaron ...... Nice set of pictures........ I really liked the second one.Great minds run in the same channel....... rolleyes1.gif azzaro

    That two-timing Yucca!

    rolleyes1.gif
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
    Marcy wrote:
    I think that the 2 shots of the same yucca plant by 2 different people offers a real insight into how photographers view the world - 2 different interpertations of the same scene produce different feelings and results and yet both are very good shots. nice - it is in the eye of the shooter and each gets exceptional results

    +1,

    Its fairly funny we did this at nearly the same time... at least I think so... he was walking right there next to me....and we were clicking away at everthing in sight during the brief minutes of golden light....
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2009
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    thapamd wrote:
    Fantastic shots! That 3rd shot is killer! thumb.gif
    Aaron Nelson
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2009
    As been said, the 3rd is great!

    How tall was that thing?

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    Anybody can do it.
  • Marc MuenchMarc Muench Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2009
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    Now were talkinthumb.gif

    Really like this one Aaron
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2009
    wfeller wrote:
    As been said, the 3rd is great!

    How tall was that thing?

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    thanks Walter, Most of these type averaged 6-7 feet high, the yucca around Saint George with the White flowers seem to only average 5-6 feet high.

    anyway, as you see, these have small seed pods not flowers.... I will make it a goal to find out more about them...
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2009
    Marc Muench wrote:
    Now were talkinthumb.gif

    Really like this one Aaron

    Thanks thumb.gif

    I need to take some time and figure out how to process this one a little better... did you notice the sensor grids in the lower righthand corner area? I want to fix that issue before I try a print.
    Aaron Nelson
  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    thanks Walter, Most of these type averaged 6-7 feet high, the yucca around Saint George with the White flowers seem to only average 5-6 feet high.

    anyway, as you see, these have small seed pods not flowers.... I will make it a goal to find out more about them...

    Thanks Aaron. Sometimes it eats at me to find out what some of this stuff is for sure. I was lucky to hang on a bus at Zion last year that the driver was into plants. I'm trying to remember what he called the ones there. I know yucca baccata (banana yucca), and I don't think these are them, so I'm going with Yucca harrimaniae ssp. gilbertiana (Harriman's yucca(?)). It seems to fit the profile. Here's a reference pageif you might need a headstart:

    http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/Y_gilber.htm

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    Anybody can do it.
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited July 26, 2009
    Cool shots, Aaron. I saw those plants but never got around to shooting them. Glad you did. thumb.gif

    Cheers,
    -joel
    Moderator of Landscapes forum
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