champion
With all that is happening in the world right now, It seemed important to share this photograph of this tree, located along a Humboldt County backroad, it is the largest single Bigleaf Maple I've ever seen, yet I've never been able to take a photograph that engages with this fact: like giant trees in general, the sense of scale remains difficult to portray.
So let us just wonder at this tree, in place for a dozen decades in the same soil hollow on this well-watered ridge, giving shelter to cows and other animals and the occasional human that ends up under there, enjoying the smell of soil and the shadows on their face. Not a bad thing. Long may you live. And you too.
Humboldt County, California, 2025
Mamiya 645 1000S, Sekor C 55mm 2.8 N, Kodak Gold 200
champion
With all that is happening in the world right now, It seemed important to share this photograph of this tree, located along a Humboldt County backroad, it is the largest single Bigleaf Maple I've ever seen, yet I've never been able to take a photograph that engages with this fact: like giant trees in general, the sense of scale remains difficult to portray.
So let us just wonder at this tree, in place for a dozen decades in the same soil hollow on this well-watered ridge, giving shelter to cows and other animals and the occasional human that ends up under there, enjoying the smell of soil and the shadows on their face. Not a bad thing. Long may you live. And you too.
Humboldt County, California, 2025
Mamiya 645 1000S, Sekor C 55mm 2.8 N, Kodak Gold 200