Palms

Posted by Aaron Blatt (Dunedin, New Zealand) on 3 July 2008 in Plants & Nature.

When the palm trees get cut or lose branches you can see inside the wood, and there are all these symetrical patterns. They said that it was the inspiration for the facial markings that the Maori people make (you can see an example of these on the gent a couple of photos back.)

Canon EOS 5D
1/40 second
F/2.8
ISO 1000
55 mm