Description
Bald cypress needles in fall colors fill the frame like Southern Christmas decorations.
Pembroke Creek
Chowan County, NC
It wasn’t actually Christmas Day but it was nearing the end of the year and the season of renewal. The delicate needles of this bald cypress seemed especially festive, highlighted by the winter sun.
The bald cypress is something of an anomaly. It’s a conifer so it has needles rather than leaves but it’s deciduous, so it loses those needles in the fall, growing a new suit in the spring.
It takes a lot of energy to grow all of those needles each year. It’s typically a strategy adopted by trees in cold climates as a defense against drying out in winter. But the bald cypress grows in southern wetlands where the weather is warmer.
Bald cypress is especially sensitive to dry conditions and drought. It may be that adopting the tactics of deciduous trees helps them survive the drier conditions of winter in the southern wetlands.
$50.65 – $164.40
Our archival quality images are printed on Moab Exhibition paper using Canon Lucia inks, providing lustrous reproducttions with a board color gamut that resists aging. For more information on the technology used, see our page on print quality.
The images on this site have been highly compressed to speed page loading. Some artifacts from the process may be visible but the image files used for printing are high resolution.
Five percent of the profits from all sales on this site are donated to Sound Rivers, a non-profit organization dedicated to defending the quality of rivers on the Carolina coastal plain.
Bald cypress needles in fall colors fill the frame like Southern Christmas decorations.
Weight | N/A |
---|---|
Dimensions | N/A |
Sizes | 18"x12" Print, 24"x16" Print, 30"x20" Print, 36"x24" Print |
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.