Giant Sequoias are featured in an astounding poster in this month's National Geographic magazine. These are the world's largest trees, thousands of years old. And they continue to persist century after century in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, just 15 minutes from fivespot.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/sequoias/quammen-text
Don't miss the fold-out poster inside the print version of the magazine. You will be inspired to see these incredible trees for yourself!
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/sequoias/gatefold-image
I took these pictures, and they sure don't compare with National Geographic's. But hey, it's hard to capture such huge trees on a point-and-shoot!
Lol
Your pictures certainly capture the immensity of the task.
Those trees are huge. It would definitely be difficult to capture them with a regular camera once you are on the ground.
The National Geographic team does all of us a service by publishing their own lovely photos of trees all across the world. These are certainly famous and more people are sure to have seen one of these trees in a book or on television than almost any other tree that is found in the United States.
Posted by: Giorgio@aluminyze | Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 01:19 PM