It’s easy to get discouraged in Landscape photography when you visit a location over and over, but you can’t seem to get an image. On this journey, we capture the Coastal Redwoods, a location I have struggled to get an image of for 10 years.
Disappointing they didn’t spend more time in the Redwoods, but still some nice views.
A road trip to northern California reveals the beauty of old-growth coastal redwood groves, rugged shorelines and a series of state and national parks.
A sign at the start shows this stand of Sequoias is called “The Parker Group … named for the eight members of the Parker family” — in Sequoia National Park.
A sign at the start shows this stand of Sequoias is called “The Parker Group … named for the eight members of the Parker family” — in Sequoia National Park.
I was greatly impressed with Renaissance while in high school, and was able to see them at the Minnesota State Fair playing in a small pavilion to only about 25 people. I couldn’t believe my eyes, standing right in front of one of the greatest bands and most people just kept walking down the path without coming inside — for free.
Jon Camp is still my favorite bass player — having such a soaring, majestic style — a one-of-a-kind! Some compare him to Chris Squire of ‘YES,’ but Jon has always moved me more.
Renaissance’s style was elegance, standing tall like the Redwoods; though, some of the lyrics were a bit dark, and were written by another lady, who seemed to be occult influenced. This concert has a great, upbeat feel, unlike some of their studio LP albums, like “Turn of the Cards,” which I still remember buying at the record store at 66th St. and Penn Ave. in Richfield, MN, while living in nearby Bloomington.
I must have heard them on KQRS, the progressive rock FM station that I was often glued to. They never played the same song in a 24 hour period, and had real DJs playing real vinyl LP records, sometimes entire albums. What a treat!
I’ve always been impressed with their song, “Mother Russia,” but didn’t know until hearing Jon Camp’s intro here that it’s about Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the imprisoned truther, author.
Bois Brulé. Burnt wood, an alternative to aging … according to ancestral techniques came from Japan for giving a durable finish to wood siding. The ancient technique of charring the wood to make it more durable is rooted among the Aztecs. The Japanese, who named it Shou-sugi-ban, have extensively used it. The charcoal acts as a protective layer that resists decay and fire, producing a long-lasting and maintenance-free material. This method of wood preservation is restarted by architects looking for green solutions in different parts of the world including Japan and Europe. In simple terms, the wood is burned for about 7 minutes using a torch or more traditional methods, before being doused with water and brushed to remove char dust, revealing a light silvery sheen. The timber is then washed and dried. It can be left unfinished or a finished oil can be applied to bring out shades of gray, silver, black or brown. This technique is used for siding, decking and outdoor furniture. The method earns interest both for its environmental history and for its aesthetic appearance. The materials can last at least 80 years, without chemicals. (YouTube comment)
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Lyrics:
What about sunrise?
What about rain?
What about all the things that you said
We were to gain?
What about killing fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the things
That you said were yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we’ve shed before?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
What have we done to the world?
Look what we’ve done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son?
What about flowering fields?
Is there a time?
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?
I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don’t know where we are
Although I know we’ve drifted far
Though these young Redwoods are not at all close to being the largest, this fantastic photo helps viewers experience the awe of what it’s really like to experience this. The little girl looking up with arms over her heart makes it. [The heart is more than a pump].
For maximum experience, click on this image to see the large, detailed one, and click the full-screen arrows. The image opens to wider than a 21.5″ iMac when the browser is fully expanded.
Surprisingly, these Redwoods are in Australia, as the story below explains.
This isn’t the coast of northern California. It is the Otway Ranges in western Victoria, thousands of kilometres from the redwoods’ natural home.
Hidden down an old unsealed logging road near Beech Forest, not a lot is known about the Aire Valley redwoods.
Planted as a softwood logging experiment in the 1930s, their initial growth was slow but eventually, they started to shoot upwards at a rapid rate. The trees were never cut down and have now grown to a height of about 60 metres [197 feet].
Forestry expert Roger Smith, who has written a book on the Otways redwoods, thinks they could grow to almost twice that height in the next 70 years.
That would make them some of the tallest trees in the world. “Hyperion”, a redwood in northern California, holds the title of the tallest tree in the world at 115 metres [377 feet].
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Jane Kelynack
Amongst Giants
Giant Californian Redwood forest in the Otways. So small and so big.
Stand tall and proud
Sink your roots into the earth
Be content with your natural beauty
Go out on a limb
Drink plenty of water
Remember your roots
Enjoy the view!
Years ago, I enjoyed this concert on DVD very much, and just now got it out to have another look.
Even though these are young Redwoods, this must be a great setting for a concert in which love is showcased — to actually be there — and be able to look straight up — can’t be fully captured in 2D!!!
The Emmy-nominated Outside: From The Redwoods features an intimate set by Kenny Loggins packed with new arrangements of his greatest hits. Includes new versions of Footloose, Celebrate Me Home and This is It with special guest Michael McDonald.
After Kenny sang this at the PAC in Anchorage, Alaska, I stood to show my appreciation. I was surprised when no one else joined me, since to me, this is such a great song — my favorite by Kenny.
To me, this song is about attitude, when we stand up for what really is right.
Great lines:
How long must we wait to change This world bound in chains that we live in To know what it is to forgive, And be forgiven?
Do you care enough To talk with Conviction of the Heart?
Located in Rotorua, The Redwoods Whakarewarewa Forest is one of the country’s most beautiful and spectacular natural assets.
Escape to the amazing forest famous for its magnificent towering Californian coastal redwoods, is just a five minute drive from the city centre.
Take in the superb panoramic views of Rotorua city and lake whilst experiencing one of the finest walking and mountain bike trails in the world.
With free entry into the forest it would be an absolute crime not to go and miss out on experiencing this majestic example of kiwi terrain at its most beautiful.
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The world’s second-largest known tree, the President, in Sequoia National Park is photographed by National Geographic magazine photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols for the December 2012 issue. The final photograph is a mosaic of 126 images.
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David Milarch is the co-founder of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and a pioneer in the cloning of ancient trees. He has dedicated his life to replanting the genetics of the world’s ancient forests. He has led efforts to propogate more than 90 species including the world’s oldest redwoods. David’s work is featured in the newly released book The Man Who Planted Trees by Jim Robbins.
Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone, tells the story of Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine and a group of botanists and amateur naturalists who discovered a mysterious world hidden above California. The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is the tale of their adventures exploring the uncharted canopy biosphere of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained, the coast redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens).
A 3 minute visual-poetic film based on the Redwood trees, laced with tidbits of information.
There are 3 members of the Redwood tree family:
Coast Redwoods (Sequoia semperviren) located on the California coastal fog belt.
Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) of the Sierra Nevada.
Dawn Redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) of Central China.
This small film depict the first two.
In the 1980s, CDs started entering the market while people were stuck on cassette tapes. I came across a magazine that contained a “CD sampler.” I stared at it and thought the idea of “CD” would never catch on, and since CD players were costly, I threw the sampler among my belongings. Close to a year later, I had a CD player. In a time of struggle, I found the old CD sampler and played it. There was a track on it that gave me a calming sensation. It was called “The Redwoods,” read by Princess Grace of Monaco. I did not quite understand much of its meaning at the time, but the sound spoke volumes to me intuitively. I still have the CD 20 years later and when I wanted to piece a small video together on the Redwood trees, my spider sense kept tingling to use that track. Hope you enjoy.
When Stephen Sillett was a boy, he took to the forests of Pennsylvania with his brother and grandmother. Looking up into the dense branches and leaves, his curiosity was piqued: What was hidden up there? Wendell Oshiro tells the story of an adult Sillett’s bold (if not a little dangerous) exploration of the canopy of an ancient redwood and details some of the fascinating discoveries he made.
Lesson by Wendell Oshiro, animation by Black Powder Design.
Blurry footage from NatGeo, but it’s Steve Sillett!
Clip from: “Climbing Redwood Giants,” a 1 hour, NatGeo documentary
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Peter Coyote (narrator): “How do you scale a giant whose lowest branches can be 200 feet off the ground?”
Steve Sillett: “If you’re lucky enough to get up into the crowns of one of these trees, it puts your own insignificant existence in perspective. It makes you realize that there’s something much greater than yourself, so much vaster than you.”
Forest ecologist Steve Sillett is leading a team of scientists as they climb and measure every branch of some of the last and tallest old growth redwoods in California. Their goal is to learn how these ancient giants have historically responded to climatic shifts and to monitor how they are being impacted today by global warming.
Gold mine of information! Stephen even explains how they obtained these figures!
My notes below:
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Past, Present and Future of Redwoods: A Redwood Ecology and Climate Symposium by Stephen Sillett – Save the Redwoods League
In the video’s cover image, “DTB” is diameter at top of buttress, and “DBH” is probably diameter at base height.
Ring width declines as trees get older, while rate of wood production increases.
“A tree’s rate of wood production continues to increase with size (e.g., leaf area) until near death.”
GOOD NEWS ON AGING:
“In this complete data set of all of our trees, only two trees have significant negative trends of growth in the last 100 years.” One is in the deepest of shade, and the other is in a swamp.
“The Redwoods, taken as a whole, in the old-growth forests of California, are growing faster now than they did in the past.” Same is true of Sequoias.
“Does a tree’s responsiveness to a changing climate diminish with age? No, regardless of age, tree growth responds to changes in the environment.”
How big are these trees they measured? [@19:40, apparently, these two are slightly less than the two record trees. Stephan says: “they’re actually number two of each, but they’re darn close to being the biggest.”]
In this video I show you some of the worlds largest trees located here in Northern California. The Humboldt Redwoods State Park houses the world famous scenic drive of the Avenue of the Giants. I hope you enjoy catching a glimpse of these beautiful trees. Keep smiling!
Check out the full story on Sharma in The Red Bulletin: http://win.gs/ChrisSharma
In a quest to return to his climbing roots and to advance the understanding of California’s giant Coast Redwoods, Chris Sharma recently embarked on an unprecedented free climb in a Northern California forest glade. Using only his hands and feet and protected from falls by a rope and harness, Sharma collected valuable data from a soaring Redwood, located in a city park in Eureka, to measure tree water status as an indicator of how it has been affected by the current severe drought. Red Bull worked closely with two UC Berkeley Tree Biologists in preparing for and executing this project.
The UC Berkeley tree biologists are currently developing funding to evaluate the impact of the current historic drought on redwood trees and forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains near the southern edge of the redwood range; a link to their fundraising site can be found here: win.gs/rgad
National Geographic photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols takes his work to new heights, capturing the beauty of a 3,200-year-old, 247-foot-tall sequoia known as the President.
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