Talking about silhouettes, I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to post these overheads. I love Bodhi trees, their spinning leaves glistening silver and green in even the faintest wisp of breeze. Sometimes their guests seem to take over, furring branches and sprouting orchid nests …
The Wanderlust Gene 
I love silhouettes! Looks excellent!
Thank you Phil! I suppose it’s playing with the light that makes shooting them so much fun.
Don’t know nuthin about bodhi trees, but I love ’em for housing those gorgeous epiphytic orchids !!
Terrific shots, Meredith !
Some people consider the Ficus Religiosa a weed, M-R – particularly in places like Sri Lanka where many village people are reluctant to uproot self-sewn seedlings. Left undisturbed, one day you’ll notice a small tree in the middle of the footpath, or wherever, then a stone with a few oil lamps around will appear at its base, in a while, a Buddha statue, an alter … 🙂 But they’re beautiful – the leaves are two toned (back and front) and flutter in the faintest breeze – it always seems cooler, just looking at them.
I can understand their … specialness, then … 🙂
What beautiful and hospitable trees! I also had not heard of Bodhi trees until I started following your blog, and for that I thank you!
Well, you know, a Bodhi tree sheltered the Buddha as he sat, seeking enlightenment, so of course, its descendants offer shade and respite! 🙂
Am glad you found an excuse to post this and do it in black and white, Meredith. The Bodhi tree is perfect for these wondrous orchids and epiphytes. Makes for a lovely silhouette.
Doesn’t it? I had some super lucky captures during those last ‘farewell’ trips – especially of things like Bodhi leaves which I’d never bothered to capture, in all my years in Sri Lanka. Glad you think they were worthwhile posting 🙂
We have wild orchids and I’ve seen them when traveling, but never actually in a tree, how wonderful thanks Meredith!
They’re extraordinarily adaptable plants, aren’t they Gilly? These are likely “Kandyan Dancers’, with weeping racemes of little yellow flowers … too gorgeous 🙂
Perfect! Must be equally beautiful in colour, especially when the orchids are in bloom. I just realised that I have not even a single image of a Bodhi tree!!
Great choice, Meredith! Beautiful Godhi tree, I have never heard about it…
I just posted a few pic of Austin, thought you might like to take a look 🙂
A true silhouette, being B&W. And a lovely composition as well. Isn’t it amazing how we “don’t see” those common but lovely things that surround us.
Beautiful! The ‘guests’ make them even more unique 🙂
So lovely, Meredith. Imagine when all those orchids are in flower. 🙂
They look complicated! 🙂 But sound pretty.
Must be lovely relaxing under the shade of this pretty tree Meredith and watching those leaves shake in the breeze . . . .
Beautiful silhouettes. There is always something so mysterious and alive about a good silhouette. These are wonderful.