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paveclaw t1_jar8j0e wrote

Reply to comment by nafurabus in Sunny rays through some giants at Redwood National Park, California. [4000x6000][OC] by UnseenK

These are tiny second or third growth redwoods. I live near a park of second growth redwoods. The optical illusion is that there is a huge hill down the street from me. When actually the ground is lower , the trees are just that tall.

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nafurabus t1_jartxi0 wrote

I spent a few hours in atlas grove, most were definitely smaller 3rd, 4th growth but once in a while you’d stumble across some monster that must have been 2nd

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UnseenK OP t1_jas1g3x wrote

This was near Howland Hill. There’s some large trees around there and even on this particular hike, but this particular space had sun rays coming through so I had to take advantage of the light and the sorta open area so I could capture many trees at once. It is hard to take pictures of trees and for it to not look boring or make the trees look smaller than they really are. I do have other photos of some very large trees where I’m more zoomed into the base, but then you can’t tell how tall they are.

I would not be surprised if there are other parts of Redwood NP that have more consistent larger growth at all though, I will have to explore some more eventually.

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