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Been using a bit of the new E100 lately and find it to work quite well in the forest. Much more neutral color than the Fuji magenta we are all used to, though someone on the side of green instead.
Dappled light shines on the redwoods through the fog. Del Norte Coast Redwood State Park, California - February 2020
E100 4x5, 300mm lens
4 seconds at f32, warming polarizer
Redwood trees with rays of sunlight bursting through the mist.
View on Black and LARGER.
The redwoods along the northern coast of California receive about 70 inches of rainfall each year just from their own needles and branches -- water that condensates and collects from the fog that shrouds these huge trees. As the fog rolls in from the ocean each day, droplets of water condensate and build larger on the needles until they drop to the forest floor. As the fog rolls further inland, occasional breaks in these low-hanging clouds allow sunlight to burst through between the branches. (There is more information about this image on my blog.)
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I just self-published my first photo book (photos of the Grand Teton NP). You can see a preview of it at my blog, Your Photo Vision. Since this is a blog read by photographers and wanna-be photographers, I also discuss the advantages and pitfalls to self-publishing through the new print-on-demand format. I'd love to hear your comments.
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Boy Scout Trail, Jedediah Smith State Park, CA
Walking amidst these giants is so humbling. And as you walk along this trail there's a section where the surroundings seem to open up and the ground is littered with ferns and the redwoods sprout straight and tall...it was really wonderful.
I won't be on Flickr very much over the next few months. Between wedding planning and studying for a certification to become a Flow Cytometry specialist (it's what I do at work, and since my two coworkers plan to retire in about 5 years I'm preparing myself for the possibility that I would have the arduous task of taking over the department) I'm too busy and sometimes too tired to dabble with photos. And I promise I'll go through your guys' grand photos too as often as I can; you all have such great stuff to see, I don't want to miss out on too much! ;) Take care ya'll!
More from our travels in Ullapool.
This is one of the giant redwood trees at Lael Forest Garden. I've had a bit of difficulty on this trip with what lens to choose - long lens for wildlife or wide angle for landscapes. Seems that every time I choose one the other happens :D
20 x30 oil on linen
This is the view I see when I come down the hill to go to town. These are redwoods along the Eel River just south of Myers Flat in Humboldt County, Ca.
It’s early morning in the redwood forest. The sun is just starting to reach down into a pocket of stately trunks that reach up from this secluded valley. The dappled warm light contrasts with the cool blue light of the deep shade. This grove of trees was my introduction to redwoods, having first visited with my father in the mid 1990s. It seems orders of magnitude more popular now. Parking reservations are required now and busloads of visitors come to see these centuries old trees daily. It does amaze me that such a nice grove exists so close to so many millions of people, but at the same time I imagine how many more redwoods there once were and my heart yearns for them to expand to more of their historic range.
Rhododendrons are extremely common in the Smoky Mountains and I always thought of them as being native to the Appalachians... clearly I was wrong.
Very neat seeing these beautiful flowering plants which are giants in their own right, alongside the super giant redwoods.
Fog's presence enhances the forest not just in beauty, but in a very crucial phenomenon where mist from the Pacific Ocean blankets coastal redwood forests, providing up to 30% of the trees' annual water needs.
A massive old-growth Redwood tree, it is the largest in the grove rising approximately 250 feet or about as tall as a 25-story building.
This ancient tree survives in a small 37-acre grove of old-growth Redwoods on the San Francisco Peninsula in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The magnificent beauty of these stately giants can still be seen and enjoyed by those who come to 'Heritage Grove' near the community of La Honda.
Muir Woods National Monument, Muir County, California, USA
These trees are known as coastal or Californian redwoods and are a variety of the Sequoia genus, growing along the Pacific coast of the USA. They are the tallest living trees on the planet, and can grow up to 379 feet. This photograph was taken in August 2015 and features a cluster of the trees in the old-growth coastal redwood forest at Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, California. The area was saved from logging by William and Elizabeth Kent and became a National Monument in 1908.
Camera: Zero Image 2000
Film: Fuji Neopan 100 Acros
Exposure Time: 4 minutes
Location: Lincoln Park - Seattle, Washington
Lincoln park in West Seattle has a lovely grove of young redwood trees, only about 100 years old. Even in their youthfulness they tower over their counterparts in the park. I'm always amazed at how dark it is walking under their canopy, even on the brightest of summer days.
Redwoods trees are amazing, if you haven't spent any time in Redwood National Park or surrounding state parks in Northern California, I highly suggest you do so.
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The Park & Tilford Gardens is a 1.5-acre (6,100 m2) (originally 3-acre (12,000 m2)) botanic garden situated in the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia. The complex, established in 1969 as a community project of Canadian Park & Tilford Distilleries Ltd., consists of eight separate but interconnected areas. The original gardens were designed by Harry J. Webb of Justice & Webb Landscape Architects.
Lynnmour, District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. It now survives only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys in the border region of Hubei and Hunan provinces and Chongqing municipality in south-central China, notably in Lichuan county in Hubei. Although the shortest of the redwoods, it can grow to 120 ft (37 m) in height.
Here's another self-portrait panorama... captured in a small redwood forest near where I'm living now.
This species might not be indigenous to South Africa... but the positive natural energy is overwhelming here. This is one of my happy places. :)
Have a lekker weekend everyone!
I made sure to put myself on this pictures just to show the scale and perspective against these big trees I felt like a little ant.The sun rays came thru the foggy scenery and made it truly magical we felt so blessed to be able to make this shot.