Can you guess from the photo below that we were off hiking in the redwoods again? This time, we went to the Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California. It’s a beautiful park with a number of groves of old growth Coastal Redwoods. The world record tree is somewhere in the park, standing over 370 feet tall. They keep its location a secret to avoid the crowds of people trampling its roots. But we sure saw plenty of giant trees, a number of them more than 360 feet tall.
The picture below was taken looking almost straight up with an extreme wide angle lens. I know it’s a very common technique, but to me, it’s the best way to convey the trees reaching for the sky. National Geographic took a different approach by creating a top to bottom panorama of a tree to show it in its entirety. But, they also had a team of people working together over a period of weeks to make the photo. You can see the result on the National Geographic web site.
