rook2c4 wrote:
I'd photograph it as a series.
Same location showing changes over time? Yes, that could be interesting....
Cool pix. But no sense of menace to my eyes. No hey problemo !
Stardust wrote:
Actually a huge failure from a human caused invasive species.
"Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in the American Southeast. When kudzu was first introduced in the southeast, it was initially used as an ornamental vine to shade homes." Then it didn't settle for houses, choking out vegetation, flowers, etc. I have literally seen it cover a telephone post, cover the wires, and go down on the other side of a road.
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By your own description kudzu is a huge success. The Civilian Conservation Corps might not like it ... but clearly, one does NOT argue with kudzu. Kudzu rules !
User ID wrote:
By your own description kudzu is a huge success. The Civilian Conservation Corps might not like it ... but clearly, one does NOT argue with kudzu. Kudzu rules !
Yes, kudzu rules. That's why It's a menace. And I'm wondering how you can express that photographically.
You don't see the second picture posted by Linda as depicting a menacing scene. I can easily see it that way.
Many, many years ago, in New York, there was a Friday night radio program featuring horror stories. I remember one about a fungal slime that covered everything and turned people into mushroom creatures. Great stuff! (🙄)
For the building I would have an arm coming out of center column of Kudzu thereby suggesting that as in the "Little Shop of Horrors,"** that this plant has developed a taste for human flesh.
The over all shot could be overlaid with a close up photo showing the leafs of an individual stalk. Another thought would be to clone Kudzu onto the car suggesting how rapidly it grows. Here is what this innocent plant does out of control.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFZuR6UzjA
This last week in western NC. Made me stop my car and take a quick shot. There is a house under that green.
CM
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
Yep, that's kudzu all right. I grew up in South Carolina where it is about to take over the whole state. You can't kill it and it will grow 6 inches overnight. It is my understanding that it was brought from Japan. It is a real curse. It was in my front yard and I was always fighting it.
You can generally find abandoned farmhouses throughout the deep south that have been engulfed by Kudzu or other creeping green menaces. If the buildings are not fully engulfed, the contrast between the vibrant green and the bleached, usually unpainted wood of the building can be quite striking.
Kudsu is edible. Problem is that it looks very much like poison ivy, so you don't want to get it confused if you are going to eat it!!
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Interesting - I have a yearly battle with the "African Potato Vines" or "Air Potato" that, like Kudzu, you can almost see it growing daily, and wrap around everything. I do not use "Herbacides" as they kill everything else and do untold harm to the environment and anyone who gets it on them. University Of Florida started a pilot program with the state a few years back and brought in the Air Potato Leaf Beetle, I bought a box of them for the cost of shipping (a truly great investment as it turns out). I have my own colony of the beetles, they don't eat anything else in the yard, they haven't totally eliminated the vines, but they do keep up with them, and their larvae literally eat the entire leaf except for the vine stalk and the vanes in the leaves, turns them into "ghost leaves", look kinda like a leaf skeloton, and basically stops the growth, allowing me to control them. We tried to control them with our goat, but only one goat couild not possibly control several acres and forest behind us (and they go to the tree tops) and the goat get's really fat from all the vine leaves. A herd of flying goats, or tree climbing goats would really do a great job......... . . . . .....
srt101fan wrote:
Having recently moved south I've become more aware of kudzu and other vines. The visual impact is that of a roadside sea of green that covers and smothers all other vegetation and structures in its path.
My question is, how do you photographically convey the feeling you get when you see this monstrous growth? The subject will generally be uniformly green without any distinctive visual elements.
So how do you photographially capture the menace, the power, the creepiness of this invasive species?
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Just be careful when you are out and about photographing that you do not step on or become a human sized pod.
Dennis
The title should be: "Is the Car Next?"
capmike wrote:
This last week in western NC. Made me stop my car and take a quick shot. There is a house under that green.
CM
This is a great photo to illustrate this topic. The chimney may not be readily recognizable as belonging to a "submerged" house, but that could be made clear if the photo is part of an article on kudzu.
Now imagine the photo without the chimney. There wouldn't be much to show the menacing aspect of the kudzu vine!?
srt101fan wrote:
Having recently moved south I've become more aware of kudzu and other vines. The visual impact is that of a roadside sea of green that covers and smothers all other vegetation and structures in its path.
My question is, how do you photographically convey the feeling you get when you see this monstrous growth? The subject will generally be uniformly green without any distinctive visual elements.
So how do you photographially capture the menace, the power, the creepiness of this invasive species?
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The good fact about horribly invasive Kudzu is that it is edible. Free vines of salad. I have done some reading about invasive species and noticed Kudzu pictured on a couple album covers by the rock band R.E.M. Examples of what the OP is probably looking for.
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