Scots pine and oak

Description:

Scots pine's bark is thick, scaly dark grey-brown on the lower trunk, and thin, flaky and orange on the upper trunk and branches. The habit of the mature tree is distinctive due to its long, bare and straight trunk topped by a rounded or flat-topped mass of foliage. The shoots are light brown, with a spirally arranged scale-like pattern. The leaves ('needles') are a glaucous blue-green, often darker green to dark yellow-green in winter, 2.5–5 cm long, produced in fascicles of two.

Habitat:

Pinus sylvestrys is a species of pine native to Europe and Asia, ranging from Scotland, Ireland and Portugal in the west, east to eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains, and as far north as well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. In the north of its range, it occurs from sea level to 1,000 m, while in the south of its range it is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 1,200–2,600 m altitude. This picture was taken in the mountains around Puerto de Canencia, in Sierra de Guadarrama, at 1500 meters high.

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300 Exposure Time: 1/125 sec. , f/8 ISO 200 Focal Length: 210.0 mm Objective lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 70-300mm f/4-5.6D ED