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asylum-art-2:

Terra Flamma – The California wildfires photographed with long exposure by Stuart Palley

The Terra Flamma project of American photographer Stuart Palley,
based in Los Angeles, who decided to document the forest wildfires that
ravage California each year through long exposure photographs. To
achieve this amazing series, the photographer first completed
a course with the US Forest Service to learn how to behave around these
fires and to be able to get close while remaining safe. The severe
drought of these last years has favored forest wildfires in California,
and there have been more than 3,600 fires already in 2015. via: ufunk

Source: asylum-art-2

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otteroftheworld:

My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.

how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen

I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.

Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.

And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.

Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.

Source: bedjacket