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Beautiful shot

Thank you!

I love the Forrest, so peaceful.

it's crazy there was a time where you could just cut these things down

Seems to be the same story for most forests unfortunately.

I'm going to drive out there in June and I am stoked. I can't wait to be lost among the giants.

Nice! This was my first time myself, just went about a week ago. I live in the PNW so I'm used to this type of climate/environment, however, I'm not so used to the trees being so damn large.

What an absolutely gorgeous picture!!!! Thanks for sharing : )

This hits home for me because when I was a kid my parents took a camping trip here every summer and I have the best memories here. If a photo can live up to my treasured memories, it's a good photo!

There is something about the Redwoods (at least as far as I remember in 1998) that has a very otherworldly glow. I have my first memory of thinking that life was going to be beautiful while being in this forest. I was 5 years old, leaning my head against the car window and watching the forest move past while my dad drove us through. I got this sense of beauty and importance, like something was telling me that anything is possible. I remember immediately telling my parents "I think my life is supposed to be very awesome!" right after I felt that. I was singing a song to myself and just feeling the divine beauty of the earth. I remember the way the light was moving through the trees and hitting the window. I can't believe how universal earths beauty is, knowing that as a child it hit me with the same depth. I credit the Redwood forest : )

Where be the Ewoks?

Yub yub

Take into consideration that these are pretty young specimens as well. Such a shame that so much of the old growth has been cut down. Visiting the redwoods is certainly on my bucket list. Just magnificent!

Like Sideways ruined California merlot, Star Wars ruined every picture I see of the Redwoods. Gorgeous, sure. But, I can't see it without thinking about stuffed animals.

It’s so hard to capture the scale of these things in photography. I see so many people talk about making the journey to see these trees and theres absolutely nothing you can do to understand the scale if you haven’t been there yourself. My neck was sore for days after a 4-5 hour trek through the groves constantly looking up.

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.

That's Endor

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

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.