Urban Wilderness

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Urban Wilderness

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Ram Vasudev

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Urban Wilderness, Eaton Canyon, Pasadena, California
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Eaton Canyon is one of my favorite urban wilderness areas in greater Los Angeles. The 190-acre zoological, botanical, and geological nature preserve is located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. On a good day, I could easily spend a few hours here, just wandering around with my camera in bag and photos in mind. This picture was captured in late March a few years ago, when there was plenty of rain and things were green!

I was attracted to this scene by the lush trees leaves, vegetation and wild grasses. I was mesmerized by the different shades of green. These shades are qualitatively described as greens differing in hue, chroma or lightness, and defined more rigorously by their RGB values ("Forest Green" for example has sRGB=39,134,39). I could identify at least the following greens in this picture: forest green, light green, fern green, lime green, moss green and tea green. I am sure there are many more shades of green in this photo!

Chemically speaking, plants are green because of the molecule chlorophyll, which is involved in photosynthesis, a process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy in the form of carbohydrates. The stored chemical energy is later released in other processes. Because of variations in the amount of chlorophyll and other pigments, plants have many shades of green in both hue (true color) & value (lightness/darkness).

The image may seem tilted, but it is not. It is an illusion because the image was captured in a hilly area where the terrain is slanted. The camera was perfectly upright, on a tripod.

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January 15th, 2018

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