Joel,
I've been taking shots of the Usnea Lichen for years now, (more commonly
known as Old Man's Beard) and stumbled on 'when' to take the pics, within a
day of the last rain or heavy fog, as they start drying out immediately.
Early in the morning when you've had dew, they show up at a good distance
and by 10 AM blend back into the surrounding scenery if it is going to be
warm at all.
Scott
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joel Wilcox
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:20 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Isle Royale photos finally webbed out
If you look in the lower left corner of this photo:
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox/ir/tobin/ir23.jpg
you will see a branch completely encased in the lichen. When an
entire tree or several are enveloped in the stuff, it's very eery at
first. I tried to get some good photographs of the lichen enveloping
trees on this massive scale, but I really just couldn't capture it.
After a few days, it no longer made quite this impression.
I'll try to come up with a couple photos that might be somewhat
successful at illustrating what I mean.
Joel W.
On 2/22/07, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, healthy and abundant lichen is a good sign. But I've never
> considered Old Man's Beard terrifying stuff. Most of the stuff I had to
> watch out for was underfoot... like moccasins. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
> > Chuck,
> > Latin name is usnea. It's kind of terrifying stuff, since it appears
> > to gobble up trees, and although we didn't have much cloud or fog,
> > even without it it's spooky and eery. One of the unexpected pleasures
> > of the trip was hiking around with a chemist by profession who was a
> > biologist by avocation. He was like a kid at Disneyland on Isle
> > Royale and noted that the presence of so much healthy old man's beard
> > indicated that the air is very clean up there.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Joel W.
> >
> > On 2/22/07, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Very nice. I also got a surprise seeing the "Old Man's Beard" lichen.
> >> Previously I've only ever seen it in South Florida and assumed it was a
> >> Florida native.
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
> >>
> >> Joel Wilcox wrote:
> >>> I was shamed by Ag Schnozz last weekend into getting my Isle Royale
> >>> photos from last September's photo adventure webbed out:
> >>>
> >>> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
> >>>
> >>> List Personality Highlight: Bill B. inside the fateful canoe.
> >>>
> >>> All E-1 with either DZ 15-54 or 50-200. Several extra wide in the
> >>> Scoville Pt. gallery were taken with Bill's DZ 7-14 (thanks Bill as
> >>> always).
> >>>
> >>> Most of the macro-ish photos (flowers and plants, mainly) were made
> >>> with the 90/2 + OM adapter.
> >>>
> >>> Joel W.
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