{"id":773,"date":"2008-03-23T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T12:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-23\/773"},"modified":"2008-03-23T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T12:21:01","slug":"spooky-tree-on-amamis-kakeroma-jima-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-03-23\/773","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Tree on Amami’s Kakeroma-jima Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 34 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>250 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nSpooky Tree<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Finally getting around to writing one of the posts I mentioned<\/span> in Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment\nof Riches<\/a>, here's the “spooky tree” that our guide, Hirozou-san<\/a>, showed us\ntucked away in a far<\/span> corner of the small and sparsely populated\nKakeroma-jima Island of southern Japan's Amami Island Group in the East\nChina Sea. We visited Amami<\/a> over the New-Year holiday.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>60 sec, f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nCluster of Roots Dangling Down<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The whole tree seems to be made up of nothing but twisty tangled clumps\nof aerial roots<\/a> that\ndrop down to establish new trunks. As time progresses<\/span>, they get sturdier\nand become trunks, branching out to start the process again, thus expanding\nthe tree's coverage.<\/p>\n\n

It creates a decidedly haunted-story feeling, both similar and different\nfrom the spooky Amami\nmangroves<\/a> we would see the next day.<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>180 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nCreepy<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nSelf-Extending Support<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Maybe this “expanding coverage” is where Japanese gardeners got the idea\nfor adding supports to tree branches in order to allow them to grow to\nunnatural lengths, as we've seen many times in passing on this blog\n(recently here<\/a>\nand here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

At some point it becomes difficult to tell whether to consider something\na dangling<\/span> root, or a trunk<\/span> in its own right...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 55 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>60 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nTrunk\/Root\/Stem of Some Sort<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

The sides of the trunks had so many roots glommed onto them that they\nappeared more like the plumbing on a space<\/span>-shuttle engine<\/a> than a tree.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 85mm f\/1.4 — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>400 sec, f<\/span>\/1.6, ISO 400 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Someone had strung a net up among the roots\/trunks (at some point it's\nhard to tell the difference) to make a hammock,<\/span> which we took turns\nbouncing in...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

There was also a long rope for swinging on...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>200 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 32 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 800 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

It was right on the ocean, so the view was nice...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 23 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>125 sec, f<\/span>\/9, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nView from the Tree<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

We were there late in the afternoon on a fairly<\/span> blustery, cloudy day,\nbut before we left we got some of the last rays of the sun peeking through,\nwhich made for nice color (that sadly probably doesn't come through unless\nyou're viewing with a color<\/span>-managed browser on a nice<\/span> display)...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 18 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>160 sec, f<\/span>\/5.6, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nSpooky, In Warm Tones<\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Two minutes later, I snapped<\/span> the sunset picture seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

More Amami-related posts are listed in my blog's Amami-Islands\nCategory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally getting around to writing one of the posts I mentioned in Overwhelmed: an Embarrassment of Riches, here's the \"spooky tree\" that our guide, Hirozou-san, showed us tucked away in a far corner of the small and sparsely populated Kakeroma-jima Island of southern Japan's Amami Island Group in the East China Sea. We visited Amami over the New-Year holiday.<\/p>

The whole tree seems to be made up of nothing but twisty tangled clumps of aerial roots that drop down to establish new trunks. As time progresses, they get sturdier and become trunks, branching out to start the process again, thus [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}