Bamboo Hawaii 392-16

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Bamboo Leaves 1443-10

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Bamboo after rain - Phyllostachus

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Last Snow 1066-07

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Halmspur 1101-04

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Opening of the leaf sheath of a bamboo culm 1103-10

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Bamboo Forest 1096-09

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Markus Bollen has photographed bamboo plants and details from all over the world. There is a special version of the Bamboo Hawaii that features the sound of the forest itself. You can hear the rustling of leaves, the babbling of a brook and the singing of different birds in this very forest.

In "Last Snow", the slipping remnants of snowflakes on bamboo leaves moving slightly in the wind caused unwanted blurring in many of the images. Whenever the image on the ground glass was optimally focused, the leaves moved into a different plane of focus as the weight of the snow was removed, when the ground glass had to be exchanged for the magazine.