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Introducing unique tropical trees

Introducing unique tropical trees

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Introducing unique tropical trees

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- One of my favorite things to focus on in tropical landscapes are flora and fauna. Now, here in Maui, in the state of Hawaii, we don't have a lot of animal life and that's due in part to it being a very young group of islands. But the plant life is phenomenal, and I want to start with trees. If I had to pinpoint my favorite subject in landscape to photograph, I might be pushing to trees. I hate to label, but I just love them. And here on Maui, we have this phenomenal rainbow eucalyptus tree with the bark that you have to see to believe. It is so colorful and so beautiful I can't help but spend a lot of my time here photographing it. If I just photographed this tree I'd be very happy on this island. So, what we're going to do is really kind of break it down and use a long lens and really isolate and focus on making the best image we can of this beautiful tree. One of the challenges of photographing a tree this beautiful is finding a grouping, because a single tree you could do…

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