Mountain Ash Puzzle Mosaic
by Gregory Scott
Title
Mountain Ash Puzzle Mosaic
Artist
Gregory Scott
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
I've only ever seen Mountain Ash growing at rather high altitudes in the Appalachian Mountains of the southeast USA. In the northeast, the range appears much more widespread, however. My personal affection for this tree is probably linked to the way they serve to symbolize my favorite places in the East, including New England, and the more rugged mountainous regions of the southeast.
I consider this an experimental "Work in Process" experimental image, rather than a final publication image. I'm willing to sell it "as is", but has not been given a final crop. I'm considering cropping off some portion of the left side of the photograph, perhaps up to half the image. However, one group of details, of which I am fond, are the "stacks" of dead leaves that appear almost as a nested stack above a bunch of berries.
This photo is a simulated wide-angle image of rather high resolution, shot as a stitched composite photo from a large number of photographs taken of the grove of trees. The result appears quite sharp and detailed overall. However, the "puzzle" aspect of the photo is derived from the fact that because it is shot in sections with a 300mm telephoto lens, rather than in a single wide angle shot, there are quite a few small sections of the photo that are NOT in sharp focus. These appear somewhat randomly through the image. Be sure to inspect the photo through the "green box" high resolution viewing inset, to see if you are annoyed by these regions. They mainly appear in the lower part of the image.
More info on Mountain Ash abstracted from http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/sorame/all.html:
Common names: American mountain-ash, mountain ash, dogberry, small-fruited mountain ash, roundwood, missey-mossey, cormier
Scientific name: Sorbus americana
American mountain-ash hybridizes with black chokeberry (Pyrus melanocarpa), producing P. xmixta Fern., and with purple chokeberry (P. floribunda), producing P. xjackii (Rehd) Fern.
I speculate that the
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October 29th, 2013
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