David777
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TP09958 79 cr1 — Postimages
Lime green in nature. Staghorn lichen, evernia prunastri, is common and widespread in California lower elevation oak woodlands. At mid elevations in the Sierra Nevada it tends to grow best as I framed here on an ancient Sierra juniper, juniperus grandis, tree limb, one of my favorite subjects.
For the sake of art in this lime green thread, I boosted color saturation on this 100% pixels crop of lichen image to an unnatural though aesthetic level. It is true when sun shines on such lichen, it can depending on orientation somewhat backlit, because it is somewhat translucent, it may glow in ways impossible to capture with consumer camera gear due to excessive dynamic range.
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And this is a color correct version of the same crop area as the crop at top that shows what that same area of the image would look like. The below is how I would display it reasonably accurately when publicly exhibiting or printing per my natural style.
This is a downsized version of the full 5900x000 pixel image in shadow skylight with the above crop at frame upper mid left.
And below are full ancient Sierra juniper trees at elevation 8.2k in Desolation Wilderness near lake Tahoe. Notice the noted staghorn lichen that love the juniper dead branch wood especially where protected from direct sun. Image size 9800x6000 pixels. In the background is rusty metavolcanic geology with areas of mountain hemlock on ledges. Across the bedrock stream pool are some mountain white pine and lodgepole pine. And yes, brook trout were in those waters and also in the larger lake the stream flows out of a small portion of which is just right of the middle tree's trunk.
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