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"And forget not that the earth
delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair."
~ Kahlil Gibran
The fog was rolling into the forest as this Sequoia stood tall among the Dogwoods and fir trees. (Dogwoods were blooming all over the park)
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Sequoia National Park
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Battle worn trunks with ancient scars. Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA, July 2023
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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.
The girth on some of the trees in the Giant Forest is remarkable. If you want to feel small, sit at the base of one of them. Sequoia National Park, California, USA, July 2023
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What better way to celebrate an anniversary with fireworks? Those stars are lightyears away, but they're celebratory nonetheless. Sequoia National Park is a special place, especially at night. Where else can you stand next to living beings, whose age reaches back into the millennia and centuries, and stare up into space, the cosmos, and time itself? The light hitting your eyes from the Milky Way has traveled to earth for as long as the trees you're standing next to have been growing- or longer. Realizing that, and basking in the glow of space, time, and nature, is a special experience.
This is Grant Grove in Kings Canyon National Park during a snowstorm. The contrast of the reds from the giant sequoias against the greens and white was a beautiful sight.
Shot with a Canon Elan 7; Canon Velvia 50 film; Canon 70-200mm lens.
I am thrilled this shot even came out, it was a very, very cold morning. I went to the balcony and saw these foggy clouds just hanging on the mountain. I rushed back into the room to get my camera, knocking my poor child to the floor, I heard "awe mommy!" . But I think she'll thank me some day.
Beauty on two scales: micro and macro. Lupine and Sequoias complement each other so well.
In Sequoia National Park, you are on Western Mono and Monache land.
This was shot on a Sony A7R IV on a 24 mm lens and edited in Lightroom.
Go out west. Listen to Aaron Copland as you do it. Revel in the grandeur. There are few things in this life as perfect as that music coupled with such glorious nature.
- In sequoia and kings canyon national parks, you are on Western Mono/
Monache land.
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Well, you might as well follow up General Sherman with General Grant. The tree was named in 1867 to honor Ulysses S. Grant, and was coined "the Nation's Christmas Tree" by President Calvin Coolidge. It is one of the "biggest" attractions in America's national park system. Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA, July 2023
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Balch Park in the Sequoia National Forest is a lovely campground operated by Tulare County. It has two fishing ponds surrounded by sequoia trees. Ducks and waterfowl frequent the ponds, while fish, frogs and water striders frolic on and under the surface. I'm glad this park was spared from the wildfires of 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Trees grow generally straight and tall, but did you ever think of what is required to build a structure that grows straight up against gravity up to hundreds of feet high? I thought about that on this trip. Especially wondrous is the fact that the growth is achieved by individual microscopic cells with limited senses and communication with each other.
Botanists can describe gravitropic hormones that stimulate growth, but these same hormones also stimulate branches that grow horizontally outward at regular intervals creating fractal patterns with symmetrical beauty. There's much more going on than simplistic molecules can explain.
This is a giant sequoia tree named General Sherman. It is not the tallest tree in the world, nor the does it have the largest circumference. But it's total mass qualifies it for the largest tree in the world. It is 275 feet tall and 103 feet in circumference at the base. Sequoias don't taper as much as coastal redwoods as they gain height, so their total volume of wood exceeds the redwoods. At 180 feet above ground, the General Sherman tree is still 44 feet in circumference.
This is bit of touristy shot, but the tree is so impressive that it deserves a post.
Sequoia National Park, California.
Just after sunrise on some mornings at this fishing pond, tendrils of fog dance on the surface of the water.
Trunks of sequoias and pines reflect in the pond at Balch Park as tendrils of fog dance in the sunlit water.
There are some big trees in Kings Canyon. These two really rose above the others. Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA, July 2023
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Among the giant sequoia trees grow dogwood trees! Seems amazing to me. In the autumn they turn a pink/gold that is just so beautiful and add color to the fo
I love rainy days. Put a little plastic raincoat on camera and lens and wandered in the back forty. This is one of the Sequoia redwood trees we had planted. All of the trees are growing so well, thanks to the TLC from my husband.
Will this look like a Giant Sequoia in our lifetime? Perhaps not, but it is a start. They're much taller than we are alreadyand healthy and healthful.
Besides Mariposa Grove, I didn't realize there are also giant sequoias in the western part of Yosemite. It was nice to see such majestic living being.
This shot is meant to be paired with the shot immediately following it in my Photostream. Amazing how perspective and focus does to your reality and perception of reality.