ENTRY DESCRIPTION
It was she that brings me here on this night, and now my attention is fully with her - manifest like a thousand sword blades sticking out of a single point, the rare Silversword - a plant like no other on Earth. To see one is a special treat. To see one in bloom, with its spectacular flowering stalk reaching skyward, and containing up to 600 heads of up to 40 flowers - it feels as if you are looking at an alien being from some distant galaxy who has come to impart deep wisdom, a secret containing the answers to the universe. One would never suspect that soon after their flowering they will die, scattering drying seeds to the wind and returning to the cosmos above. But, that is their fate.

AUTHOR
Born and raised around Big Sur, California, Scott Reither has achieved international recognition as a fine art landscape photographer with a taste for the dramatic and the transcendental. His long-exposure photographs sensitively record the atmospheric effects, lyrical beauty and emotional revelations that occur through the combination of light, space and time. Captured in evocative locations around the world, Reither’s photographs are expressive evidence of the raw and wondrous truths still to be found in the landscape.

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