Daily picture of dry Populus euphratica in the Ejina Desert

Li Cheng's Daily Picture There is a Populus euphratica forest growing in Ejina Banner of Alxa League in western Inner Mongolia. It is a dry land almost surrounded by desert. Populus euphratica trees grow strongly on such dry land. They are extremely drought-tolerant. In early autumn, the climate in Ejina is dry and clear, and the poplar euphratica forest becomes colorful, attracting tourists and photography enthusiasts from all over the world. go. Legend has it that the poplar tree will grow in such arid land and will not die for a thousand years. It will not fall down for a thousand years after death. Even if it falls, it will not rot for a thousand years. But the legend is just a legend. The increasingly dry land cannot sustain the life of trees after all. The "strange forest" is the heart-wrenching scenery left by those dead poplar trees.

In the evening, the sunset in Ejina’s sky changes, the colors are charming, and the light is more suitable for taking photos. But at that time, there were too many people taking pictures in the strange forest, and it was too difficult for me to use a wide-angle lens to capture the above scene without people. So I didn’t take this photo when the light was the best, but it showed a kind of tranquility of the passing of life under the sun. It is this tranquility and the weathered texture in the picture that make people indescribable. Terrified: It was like a battlefield, with corpses strewn all over the field and lightly covered by fine sand.

The purpose of using a wide-angle lens is to include more elements in the picture, and to show the wind-eroded tree trunk in the distance more impactfully. The above photos were taken using a Pentax K20D digital SLR camera and an smc PENTAX-DA 12-24mm F4 ED AL [IF] lens.

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