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Now Thats Some Scale for Ya!

I love trees. There is no question about this. When walking through the woods, aside from mosquito's or horse flys, I am completely at peace. Trees are one of the many things in nature that continue to amaze me which is nice since I do not need to travel very far to be surrounded by them.

 

 

Giant sequoia's and the coastal redwoods have always been something that I have wanted to see. They were (and should be for everyone) on the bucket list of things I wanted to see before I die and thankfully I have seen them twice.

 

 

To express the sense of scale of these trees at the least is difficult and at the most, damn near impossible. The scale typically does not carry over. I mean when you have a grove of trees which are relatively the same size (which is HUGE), the massive size does not carry over to a captured image.

 

 

I think though, in this shot with Shuppe in it, you can start to get an idea of the game these giants are playing.

 

 

Whats that you say? You don't know anything about Sequoia's or you have not brushed up on them recently? Well by all means head on over here to read up on them.

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum

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Uploaded on September 25, 2013
Taken on September 8, 2013