Just Stopped By For A Bite
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Just Stopped By For A Bite
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Many aspen trees have dark scars on their bark contrasting with their usual white color. These scars are often the result of animals taking advantage of the aspens’ ability to produce sugar in the inner layer of bark. Deer, elk and moose will frequently graze on aspen for food. The bark is an especially important source of nutrition in the winter when plants have lost their leaves.
Other marks on the aspen trees may come from deer, elk and moose rubbing their antlers on the bark. Ungulates shed their antlers and grow a new pair every year causing them to rub the newly grown antlers against trees to shed the new hairy velvet layer covering the growing antlers. Widespread scarring along the lower aspen trunks is often from this kind of animal activity.
Photograph made in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorful Colorado!
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Your finished photograph will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image copyright 2021 Jon Burch Photography.
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August 4th, 2021
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