I call this tree Yggdrasil, look it up in wikipedia.
Lived nearly 4 years of my life as a kid right behind it - to the right of this photo.
Used to climb it almost every day, looking out for boats entering or exiting the harbour. Or to look at nice girls on the beach. Or just for the heck of it!
In 2010, 41 years later, I went back and took this photo. It is very old now. But when I touched it, it felt exactly as I recalled it. And I swear it smiled and purred at me!
It's a banyan-family tree native to East Timor, they call it a "gondoeiro" over there.
I just call it "my tree"
NikonD200, Sigma EXDG24-70/2.8, raw in CaptureOne, then usual pp
I looked up yggdrasil its the perfect name for that tree, and what a tree to have right outside your home, but seriously it looks huge, was it that big when you used to climb it nuno ? ( lovely shot by the way, beautifully sharp )
It certainly was. Banyan trees never stop growing, but they do so very slowly.
Left on their own, they split off a trunk from the drop roots and continue to grow as another tree. I do recall reading somewhere there is one in India that is dozens of metres long, from a single original tree!
This one had two main trunks in my time. One was killed off because it was growing into the street. The remaining one is the original: a bit wider, but overall a smaller tree than back in the late 60s.
Dunno how old it really is but historical records seem to indicate at least 120 years old. There is a hand drawing in a friend's collection, done back around 1890, and it has this tree already there.
( lovely shot by the way, beautifully sharp )
Left on their own, they split off a trunk from the drop roots and continue to grow as another tree. I do recall reading somewhere there is one in India that is dozens of metres long, from a single original tree!
This one had two main trunks in my time. One was killed off because it was growing into the street. The remaining one is the original: a bit wider, but overall a smaller tree than back in the late 60s.
Dunno how old it really is but historical records seem to indicate at least 120 years old. There is a hand drawing in a friend's collection, done back around 1890, and it has this tree already there.