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When all else fails... Post a photo from one of the best photography days of my life. Memorial Day, in Sequoia National Park,.Gigantic trees, and fog... It was a great day!
I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Or... Ummmmm... What is it today? Easter? OK, happy Easter. I remember my Mom used to drag me off to church every Easter. Apparently this holiday has some kind of religious significance. I thought it was just about a Bunny. You'd think that if this day was so important, they'd atleast know what day it was. Last year it was in March. Now it's in April... Whatever... It was still on a Sunday though. Anyway... I still remember the last time I ever went to church, about 27 years ago. The minister was blessing something with Holy Water... I said to my Mom "what? Did that come from the holy faucet, in the holy bathroom?" The people in front of us heard me, and turned around, glaring at us. That was the last time she made me go to church.
Tunnel Log is a fallen giant sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park. The tree, which measured 84 m tall and 6.4 m in diameter, fell across a park road in 1937 due to natural causes. The following year, a crew cut an 2.4 m tall, 5.2 m wide tunnel through the trunk, making the road passable again.
Giant sequoias are the world's largest trees by volume.
They grow to an average height of 50–85 m (160–279 ft) and 6–8 m (20–26 ft) in diameter. Record trees have been measured to be 94.8 m (311 ft) in height and over 17 m (56 ft) in diameter.[1] The oldest known giant sequoia based on ring count is 3,500 years old.
Sequoia bark is fibrous, furrowed, and may be 90 cm (3.0 ft) thick at the base of the columnar trunk. It provides significant fire protection for the trees. The leaves are evergreen, awl-shaped, 3–6 mm long, and arranged spirally on the shoots.
The seed cones are 4–7 cm long and mature in 18–20 months, though they typically remain green and closed for up to 20 years; each cone has 30-50 spirally arranged scales, with several seeds on each scale, giving an average of 230 seeds per cone. The seed is dark brown, 4–5 mm long and 1 mm broad, with a 1-mm wide, yellow-brown wing along each side. Some seeds are shed when the cone scales shrink during hot weather in late summer, but most are liberated when the cone dries from fire heat or is damaged by insects.
The giant sequoia regenerates by seed. Trees up to about 20 years old may produce stump sprouts subsequent to injury.
place : Sequoia National Park, CA
Source :wiki
This is the Senate (if I remember correctly) grouping of sequoias on the Congress Trail at Sequoia National Park. It was a great trail and probably my favorite part of the whole trip! Shot on my hasselblad 500C and ektar 100, and developed by the Little Film Lab.
It’s nearly impossible to capture or convey the scale of a Sequoia tree in any medium. Words can’t capture the imposing and grand feeling they give you; photography doesn’t capture the infinite detail and depth that the massive trunks and branches and needles all have, piercing the bright blue sky beyond. No, trying to tell or show people what the Sequoias are like is a fool’s errand. This picture is a fool’s errand, even if I am pleased that my experiment of combining several landscape and portrait oriented shots worked out so it’s possible to see a whole Sequoia in one photograph. The only way to know a Sequoia is to see one and to drink in its marvelous presence as you spend time exploring a grove of these amazing giant citizens of our planet.
This is a composite shot, created from about 5 different images as captured on a Sony A7rIV and combined in Lightroom to get the ONE tree in the whole frame.
Camping for the night at 9,000 feet in Sequoia National Forest, I decided to try my first panoramas. (Panos and focus staked images are this year's new skills!) This turned out not too bad for a first go.
This is a vertical pano of four exposures in landscape orientation, processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Sequoias at Sanborn County Park near Saratoga, California. Processed in Lightroom using Nik Silver Efex Pro using Ilford PAN F Plus 50 preset.
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This imposing conifer group consists of 7 North American redwoods. Its scientific name Sequoiadendron gigantea goes back to the North American Indian chief Sequoia. The trees come from seeds that a Palatinate forester sowed there in 1861.
Height: 25 meters
Crown diameter: 7 meters
Trunk circumference: 4.40 meters
Sequoia National Park, California.
One of the hikes described in my book "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South", page 161.
Looking way, way up into the sequoia canopy in the Redwoods forest. I love combing back through the archives and revisiting the wonderful trip my wife and I enjoyed last summer. But, I don't love the file quality of the last images I took before I got a full frame camera body! A reason to go back I suppose! Like I needed it.
Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The U.S. National Forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees which populate 38 distinct groves within the boundaries of the forest.
The Giant Sequoia National Monument is located in the national forest. Other notable features include glacier-carved landscapes and impressive granite monoliths. The Needles are a series of granite spires atop a narrow ridge above the Kern River.
Sequoia National Forest was established on July 1, 1908, from a portion of Sierra Forest Reserve. On March 2, 1909, Theodore Roosevelt added land by Presidential Proclamation. On July 1, 1910 1,951,191 acres (7,896.19 km2) was removed from the forest to create the Kern National Forest. This land was returned to Sequoia National Forest on July 1, 1915.
Source: Wikipedia
Camping for the night at 9,000 feet in Sequoia National Forest, I decided to try my first panoramas. (Panos and focus staked images are this year's new skills.)
I'm reasonably happy with how this one turned out. It's basically what I was looking for in shooting toward the treeline, standing in a meadow. I'm learning that you want clean, simple areas in your compositions, and this is in that direction. I can see things I'd improve, which is good.
This is a vertical pano of four exposures in landscape orientation, processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Two giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) reach toward the sunset in the Gaint Forest near the General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park, California
In the middle of the city there is this huge sequoia tree. It has many years to go before it will have the dimensions of the sequoia trees in te USA but I will keep my patience....growing bigger each day. Joost was so kind to pose.
Vitora-Gasteiz, Spain
Like a "Lord of the Rings" fantasy, high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains a groove of the Oldest Trees in the World have their little monastery
The sunlight trying to break through the fog was really nice on this morning. Sequoia National Park, California.
One of the hikes described in my book "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South", page 161.