These trees usually occur when the ground shifts allowing water from the thermal pools to flood their roots and kill the tree. The roots however still absorb the mineral rich water allowing silcon and other minerals to replace much of the wood. As a result these trees do not rot, but rather weather away. They ofton last hundreds of years.

-- Mark Meyer (mameyer@xsite.net), April 17, 2000

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Beautiful image, Mark. I think the gray sky really captures the karma. Bright sun just wouldn't look right, in my opinion. Excellent work!

-- Stephen Zang (z4grn67@netzero.net), April 18, 2000.

yep, pretty work, indeed. but can't you just see the beauty of the same shot with the same cloudy sky using ilford xp2super, or some other choice b&w film? why not try it next winter?

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), April 18, 2000.

I am a very big fan of B&W but i cant help disagreeing with the above poster on the grounds that i see so little color work that is as good as mark meyer josh

-- josh (devil_music@usa.net), May 17, 2000.

I have to disagree with Wayne here. I a monotone image like this, color really makes the high tone separation that would be missing in B&W. Black and white would present a blank sky while the color in the sky is what really makes this image. I shoot B&W almost exclusively and I really like how the color gives this image texture. James

-- james (james_mickelson@hotmail.com), May 21, 2000.