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located at the entrance to 妙寿寺 (Myōjuji Temple) in Tokyo. The ginkgo tree is an object of veneration, a symbol of unity, of changelessness... the bearer of hope and as a reminder of the distant past... a symbol of love. The ginkgo is a very old tree of th...  

can be found below and at the link... the trees are amazing... The Grand Kikubo (Aomori prefecture) - 1,000 years old Shoboji Temple ginkgo (Saitama prefecture) - 700 years old Horyo Ginkgo (Aomori prefecture) - 1,100 years old Must see -> Link

It’s more than a tree. The story and history behind it, the spiritual meaning of it or the spiritual emotions it can generate. Almost too much to capture in a photograph yet if I look at the last two pictures and recall the background, I can almost feel i... 

I can't imagine letting the year go by without taking a photo... and now that I have seen photos of the "ancient three trees" I must visit in person.... Casey

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Must be spectacular.

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Thanks Casey. Such reverence comes naturally when you stand before a Gingko tree. My memorable Gingko stands at the courtyard of the Nishi Hongwanji temple in Kyoto.

I have not been in Kyoto / Nara in late autumn, but it must be lovely... quite often temples and shrines have ginkgo trees at their entrance... Casey

Is t this Great how through this forum we all get to see and learn so much from other parts of the world? Things we would never read in a book or learn from a tour guide But things we can only learn from people who actually live in that place

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Take for instance the picture ice added here It’s a new mosque right in the DIFC the Dubai International Financial Centre. Who would have envisaged such a mosque It almost looks a bit like the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi ...  

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How can something so old still be alive? Never mind how beautiful this tree is. Your second photo is sublime. Trunk and leaves in and out of focus. This is what I try to capture, with little success, every time I photograph nature.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro Exposure: 1/640 seconds FNumber: f/5.60 ISO: 1600 Exposure Compensation: -0.33 PL filter back button focus using central focus point only to choose in-focus point focus on half shutter press deactivated...

They were around 130 million years before the first flower.

According to Wikipedia... ginkgoales has a Temporal range of 270-0 Ma (mega-annum - a million years), starting in the Permian geologic period, which predates the Triassic and Jurassic periods... fascinating...