Identity as juvenile or female House Finch by Don Delaney.

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The back forty turned unique hues with a dark blue sky minutes before sunset just now. This is facing east toward the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest. About as shot (a little vertical straightening).

Joy of trees after rain. Just having fun.

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My husband captured early morning fog and dew and streams of light on the back forty. One of the Sequoia Redwood trees we had planted appealed to him.

He was not seeking bokeh balls; just the light and dew.

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Just before sunset. A different shot. Such unusual lighting with a dark, blue sky. About as shot vertically. A bit of vertical straightening.

A fun shot! Walking through a very old hollowed tree I found this hole in the wall. View of a Sequoia in Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, California.

Joy in the morning. Wandering around put my concern for The Bahamas and the East Coast on pause.

This is one of our sequoia trees in the Pacific Northwest. Now that we're seeing fog and dew, I feel a bit more hope for our world.

Slight crop only from RAW.

There is an experience I love SO much and that is standing in the fog in Sequoia National Forest. The feel of the mist on my face, the sweet mystery the fog lends to the landscape, heavenly. Just returned a few days ago and I can still 'feel' it in my heart.

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Like many on Memorial Day weekend I decided to go camping with a buddy. We chose the Sequoia National Forest for three reasons. 1. We wanted to see the HUGE sequoias for the first time. (Childhood Bucket list, check). 2. We wanted to get as far away from people as possible. 3. The darkest sky possible with a southeast facing perch. We drove into the park around 1:00 did some activities along the way as we dwelled further into the forest. We parked our car as deep as we could go and set forth for our final resting spot. We climbed a couple hundred feet in elevation until we were on top of a mountain peak 8000ft up. Great views of the south east sky, we waited for the Milky Way to rise. What we saw tho was more spectacular than either of us signed up for. Here is a Pano that I took to gain a full perspective of what we enjoyed. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The magnificent Sierra Nevadas shot at 75mm from Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park on 05-17-2016.

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Photographed at Sequoia National Park, CA on May 16, 2016. The area is the Big Trees Trail meadow. Processed 07-09-20

I walked out back recently intending to try to find a few macro subjects. But storm clouds coming in over the Cascade Range looked lovely—to me.

My husband and I have an agreement. He mows around trees we've had planted, and the rest just grows wild. We've read that helps the ecosystem, tree frogs croaking at night, birds, coyotes, deer, etc.

Not much helps hayfever ;-)

A quick couple of photos just before it began to rain. About as shot.

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Like an old friend, Sequoia National Park.

The sagebrush slowly taking the ghost town of Garlock back. The beautiful desert is claiming her own. Image shot in Garlock, California.

Sequoia National Park, CA

05-16-2016

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I understand a lot of Sequoia's trees were destroyed in this past year's fires, but I seem to remember reading that this area, along the "Big Trees Trail" wasn't harmed. This was the scene of one of my best cosmic epiphanies, when I truly felt connected to God and the Cosmos.

If there had been a deer poking his head from between a couple of trees, this would be a perfect photo, but it's pretty much pretty perfect as it is. I left the trail for a bit (don't tell the forest service) and wandered, as is my wont, into a place with no "road less traveled" cause there was no road.

An overturned tree, death. A mossy rock, life. Some new growth in the clearing, rebirth.

My last fill at the gas station this week at $5.79 a gallon is putting me off long trips right now, but I really want to go back to Sequoia this Spring.

Badwater Basin with its hexagonal honeycomb shapes formed from the salts deposited in the basin. An incredible sight.

Actually, there is absolutely nothing humble about this Yellow-bellied Marmot's choice of abode...a giant sequoia tree, in Sequoia National Park. You can just make out the triangular entrance to his den at the bottom of the burn scar.

In winter we went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week earlier, dumping lots of snow. This park is famous for giant sequoia trees, some up to 90m (300 ft) tall.

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A much loved walk in Rhinefield Ornamental Drive situated in the New Forest Hampshire UK. Between Brockenhurst and the A35 its well known place of beauty for its ancient oaks, ash trees and beech woodlands, Douglas Firs and Norway Spruce. Also, in the mid-1800s, a forest worker planted an abundance of sequoia redwoods which are easily spotted by their tremendous imposing height.

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Sequoia trees in the spring at Sequoia National Park. Photographed in May of 2016.

Our never ending spring!

Photographed on the Big Trees Trail in Sequoia National Park, CA in May of 2016.

I've been going through my photo folders from 2016 and reprocessing a lot of my early HDR images. In the "early days" of processing, I, like a lot of HDR "newbies" I understand, used to push the programs sliders a bit too much, enthralled with the color and detail, but not realizing I was really making a mess of the whole process.

The original image can be found in the same album I'm posting this one, for comparison.

We did a whirlwind tour of Sequoia National Park a couple days ago before we headed further down to southern California. I always feel like there's not enough time to soak it in.

Explore #381 July 8th, 2016

We went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week earlier, dumping lots of snow. The visitor center was all snowed in.

I processed a realistic, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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sx70 shot taken on Polaroid black and white film.

A day full of color!

Sun just starting to peek through the trees in the beautiful Sequoia forest.

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Over the weekend we went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week earlier, dumping lots of snow. This park is famous for giant sequoia trees, some up to 90m (300 ft) tall.

I processed a realistic, a vibrant, and a photographic HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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When you come to the edge of the light you have known and take the first step into the darkness of uncertainty, you have to believe that one of two things will happen. You will find something solid there to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

~ Paul Overton

Sequoia tree in the fog.

Sequoia National Park, CA

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A year ago we went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week earlier, dumping lots of snow. This park is famous for giant sequoia trees, some up to 90m (300 ft) tall.

I processed a realistic and a paintery HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, and desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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Large Sequoia Trees in Sequoia National Park CA. The tree in the center of the photo is the General Sherman Tree, the largest Sequoia in the world, and by volume, the largest tree in the world.

Just before sunrise in General Grant Grove. The morning was very still. Even the mosquitos were sleeping. Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA, July 2023

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This was one of the rare moments when a mule deer was in bright light on our day-and-a-half spent among the sequoias. Two bucks in velvet wandered about and finally passed right between these two massive trees, going somewhere...

Sequoia National Park, California, Crescent Meadow vicinity.

June 15, 2021

Giant sequoias can grow to an average height of 220 feet with trunk diameters 23 feet, are the largest trees on Earth.

Young sequoia trees are seen in Sequoia National Park

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On Sunday we went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week ago, dumping lots of snow. This park is famous for giant sequoia trees, some growing up to 90m (300 ft) tall.

I processed a balanced, a photographic, and a paintery HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/4.5, 16 mm, 1/100, 1/400, 1/1600 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC6808_9_0_hdr3bal1pai5pho1f.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

We went hiking at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. A big storm passed by a week earlier, dumping lots of snow. This park is famous for giant sequoia trees, some up to 90m (300 ft) tall. For a sense of scale, can you spot the person walking at the lower left?

I processed a realistic and a paintery HDR photos from three RAW exposures, blended them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/8.0, 12 mm, 1/60, 1/250, 1/1000 sec, ISO 200, Sony A7 II, Rokinon 12mm F2.8, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, _DSC8734_5_6_hdr3rea1pai5h.jpg

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Spent couple days at Sequoia National Park. Giant sequoias are the biggest trees in the world and live up to 3200 years old. They grow naturally along the Sierra Nevada in California at elevations above 4000 feet. The area of sequoia trees concentration is called sequoia grove.

Garlock is a true ghost town on the road to Death Valley. It's located at the foothills of the El Paso mountain range, Garlock was once home to several hundred people, just south of the Red Rock Canyon State Recreational Area and about nine miles from the famous mining town of Randsburg. At its peak, thriving from the success of the Yellow Aster Mine on Rand Mountain.

... that is how it seemed to me any way! At times there was quite a bit of fog such as this.

It was the most difficult photography I have ever done. The reason is that the ground cover REALLY did glow as it was so bright it was amazing then everything else was so dark due to the fog and tall trees and clouds. I would go back in a heartbeat and try again any late October!

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Both are found endlessly in Sequoia National Park.

Sequoia National Park is on Western Mono and Monarch land.