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While walking about a Vancouver park, we noticed a Fir covered in cones. We had not seen such a density of cones at eye level in a tree before. We made a number of close-up pictures of the tree, including this one, but it was only after arriving back home and reviewing the pictures that we realized we hadn't taken any pictures showing the entire tree. We think the tree is a Subalpine Fir.
You can see that the cones are not mature yet. A number of the cones are leaking sap. The congealed sap resembles small icicles. The upright growing cones differentiates the Fir tree from the similar looking spruce which has downward hanging cones.
The camera included the following information in the original file:
File Name 106-0676_IMG.JPG Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot G1 Shooting Date/Time 01/7/7 12:19:16 PM Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/160 Av (Aperture Value) 5.0 Metering Mode Center-weighted averaging Exposure Compensation -2/3 ISO Speed 50 Lens 7.0 - 21.0 mm Focal Length 10.8 mm Digital Zoom None Image Size 2048x1536 Image Quality Super Fine Flash Off White Balance Cloudy AF mode Single Parameters Contrast Low Sharpness Low Color Saturation Normal File Size 1924KByte Serial Number 106-0676 Drive Mode Single-frame shooting Macro On Owner's Name Gerald & Irmgard Carter