At the beginning of the summer, I pledged to work in high key for my “Summer” gallery at GeoGalleries. I started with a few images and planned to create more. However, the excessive heat in the Sacramento area, and lack of company to travel, have interfered with my best intentions. It’s too hot for photography, even inside the house!
Like many photographers, I have a collection of unprocessed photographs in my archives. While revisiting my past trips to Brazil, I discovered a treasure of unprocessed photos, including the featured image (f/4.5, 1/1250s, ISO 320), taken in 2021 (repeated below for convenience).
The subject is a beautiful Araucaria. This conifer, once widespread during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, is no longer found in the Northern Hemisphere. Like the California Redwood, Araucaria is extremely slow growing and long living: there are some trees older than 1,600 years. It reaches its reproductive maturity between the age of 100 and 300. It’s pine nut is an edible seed that the Pehuenche people used as the basis of their diet.
I haven’t seen many Araucaria trees in my life since they are more common in the Brazilian South, and I am from the Southeast. There used to be one near my mother’s house (the FEATURED IMAGE), but it was cut down by the city because it was about to fall.
I hope you enjoy my depiction of this beautiful Southern Hemisphere conifer. There used to be extensive Araucaria forests in the Brazilian South, but most have been cut down, leaving only a few patches. The high key interpretation of this image was made possible by the intense fog that day, a common occurrence in the Brazilian mountains of the Southeast and South.
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Wall Art landscapes and miscellaneous
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It is all about the light 
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