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Title: Picture of the Day for Thursday, September 27, 2012
Post by: Bondai on September 27, 2012, 10:42:04 AM

(http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/274/cache/baobab-trees-madagascar_27484_990x742.jpg)

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Baobab Trees, Madagascar
Photograph by Pascal Maitre, National Geographic

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Avenue of the Baobabs, an area near Morondava protected since 2007, is all that remains of a once thick forest cleared for farmland. Growing 80 feet (24 meters) or more, baobabs are valued for fruit and bark.

Photo of the Day (http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/baobab-trees-madagascar/)

Title: Re: Picture of the Day for Thursday, September 27, 2012
Post by: Gina on September 27, 2012, 10:43:30 AM

Those are just wierd looking but beautiful.   They look supernaturalish.

Title: Re: Picture of the Day for Thursday, September 27, 2012
Post by: thundley4 on September 27, 2012, 11:56:39 AM

Quote from: Gina on September 27, 2012, 10:43:30 AM

Those are just wierd looking but beautiful.   They look supernaturalish.

They look like a painting done for a sci-fi story.

Title: Re: Picture of the Day for Thursday, September 27, 2012
Post by: Chris_ on September 27, 2012, 12:03:31 PM

I'm guessing it was taken at sunset with low-speed film (or the digital equivalent).  It gives you that rich, deep color saturation that you don't normally get from a regular camera.

Galen Rowell (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Galen+Rowell%22&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=oIdkUIXhJIuK9QTy9oCoDw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1360&bih=605) was great at that.