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dan-over-land t1_j6bfldm wrote
Something about this scene makes it look like a high quality video game render. Maybe it's the otherworldly massive trees.
SoloExperiencer t1_j6bg41z wrote
A rare example of a photo of a forest in bright sunlight that works perfectly. Well done!
chezgky OP t1_j6bnsb5 wrote
Probably the clarity pull + texture push to compensate 😃
skyas87 t1_j6bv7g7 wrote
I never see these pictures after a rain in winter or spring. That's when the redwoods are most beautiful.
sfcnmone t1_j6c2z8t wrote
A rare example of an r/earthporn photo that needs a human being in it in order for the photo to make any sense. You can't understand how huge these trees are unless you can compare them to something like a person or a bicycle in the photo.
Oldus_Fartus t1_j6cfa9s wrote
I used to pronounce Yosemite "yaws mite".
I still do, but I used to, too.
notalreadytaken69 t1_j6clos0 wrote
Same. English is very confusing
ggoran_ t1_j6d11ck wrote
looks like LOTR can be casted here
Odd-Meal-7713 t1_j6d1fzx wrote
I am amazed at the size of these trees.
chezgky OP t1_j6d1gbs wrote
Four ents right there
chezgky OP t1_j6d3166 wrote
A person would be about as tall as the light part on the right side of the rightmost sequoia.
IAmRotagilla t1_j6dbsb6 wrote
You never heard of Yosemite Sam, the feisty cartoon character?
IAmRotagilla t1_j6dcgns wrote
I have had the privilege of walking through that grove of astoundingly humongous trees. I live in Florida but have visited beautiful Yosemite four times.
CAAugirl t1_j6ddrqb wrote
For a summer I worked in that grove every day and it never failed to stun me. They’re my favourite trees.
Malfegorus t1_j6deszu wrote
You sure that's California? Looks a lot like the forest moon of endor.
Ripper42 t1_j6df58y wrote
Love it, used to live in Wawona and those trees were my tallest neighbors.
sfcnmone t1_j6dkyg3 wrote
OK I'm gonna tell you my story. I was born and raised in California and had visited both the coastal redwoods and Yosemite many times but somehow had never seen these trees. And we had a friend visiting from Thailand who wanted to go to Yosemite, so we took him to the Tuolumne Grove, where you park and then walk a bit down into the forest. And I said to my friend "I'm not sure how we will know which ones are the Sequoiahs. . ." And then when we saw the first one I laughed so hard I peed my pants.
Calling them trees doesn't really describe what's going on with them.
sfcnmone t1_j6dkzdd wrote
Lucky you!!
IAmRotagilla t1_j6ds3ur wrote
We visited two coastal redwood parks north of Eureka in June. Spent several hours walking among and admiring those beauties. The experience is like no other. My girlfriend had never seen a giant redwood. She was astonished too. (Didn’t pee, though.) Nature humbles us in the best way.
sfcnmone t1_j6dzldq wrote
The coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) make me think of Rivendell. The giant sequoia, like in this photo (sequoia giganteum) are like the Ents.
There's another sequoia with a really fascinating story. We have them in San Francisco in the botanical garden. Dawn redwoods, if you are interested in this very beautiful deciduous "extinct" redwood:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides
CAAugirl t1_j6ekxn7 wrote
I was lucky. Even more so as I was able to work 3 seasons in Yellowstone.
SINGULARITY1312 t1_j6ell0p wrote
Star Wars battlefront.
Oldus_Fartus t1_j6emkah wrote
I did, but he was known as "Sam Bigotes" in my neck of the woods.
VocidyWasTaken t1_j6j0czx wrote
Looks like the setting of a fairytale! 🧚😍
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