{"id":1906,"date":"2011-02-21T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sipotd.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/21\/2212011-pampas\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T19:46:25","slug":"2212011-pampas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=1906","title":{"rendered":"2\/21\/2011: pampas?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not really, of course, since this is north Florida. A few miles east of Titusville on route 50 there is a major conservation area, practically unmarked, between the road and the river: Canaveral Marshes Conservation Area. I\u2019d never heard of it, but I saw the sign on my way back from an abortive trip to Orlando Wetlands (still closed for hunting, apparently, even in January) and turned around to go back for a look. It was late afternoon, with storms coming on, but I took a nice, if lonely walk back in from the road for a mile or so. There was nothing much doing\u2026just acres of open grassland with tree cover and small patches of swampy forest along what was apparently and old road.<\/p>\n

This small stand of mixed grasses along the way struck me as somehow exotic, like something from a savanna or the pampas, hence the title. Of course I have never visited either, so it is no more than a feeling based on who knows what set of impressions from film, tv, magazines and books. Until I went for the title, I didn\u2019t even know I knew what a pampas was. \ud83d\ude42 And I had to google it to be sure. Argentina? Okay.<\/p>\n

Of course what really caught my eye was the mixture of textures, curves, and subtle colors, built up around those darker feathery heads. I used a medium long telephoto setting on the SX20IS zoom to frame an interesting pattern, and then cropped in Lightroom to eliminate some distraction at the top.<\/p>\n

Canon SX20IS at 380mm equivalent field of view, f5 @ 1\/400th @ ISO 200. Landscape program.<\/p>\n

Processed in Lighroom for intensity and clarity.<\/p>\n

And a happy Presidents\u2019 Day to you!<\/p>\n

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