Eye Candy
by Rafael Salazar
Title
Eye Candy
Artist
Rafael Salazar
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Eye Candy - Photography by Rafael Salazar
Colombian artist - Copyright 2014
Nature's Eye Candy - Glorius sights
Autumn Preparations for Winter
As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter. This is how the trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis. The trees will rest, and live off the food they stored during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. The green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves.
autumn leaves sceneryAs the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors. Small amounts of these colors have been in the leaves all along. We just can't see them in the summer, because they are covered up by the green chlorophyll.
The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in the fall. In some trees, like maples, glucose is trapped in the leaves after photosynthesis stops. Sunlight and the cool nights of autumn cause the leaves turn this glucose into a red color.
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November 5th, 2014
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