Coast Redwoods

A while back I went over to the Northern California Coast,

specifically the Coast Redwoods area of Eureka and Crescent City.

There are some great hikes in the Redwoods State and National Parks.

The redwoods themselves are awe inspiring and can induce a soar neck

from looking up all the time. 

One of the problems I faced was trying to produce photos that captured

their majesty. Regular lenses couldn't capture their size and 

wide angle lenses would distort them and in turn push them back into

the photo and reduce their size. 

What's a guy to do??  So while I did take a lot of 'tree' photos I decided

to concentrate on the smaller things in the forest and on the floor. 

The trees themselves do a good job of shading the forest floor and being 

on the coast there is a lot of moisture. great for growing ferns and fungi.

The size of this fungi is just a little larger than a quarter. You have to look

pretty closely, most of the flowers etc were pretty small.

Okay, so I like photos of light coming through leaves

It was hard identifying this flower. I eventually had to use the leaves

as a reference. The clover like leaves were about the size of 

a quarter. 

Well I guess I should post at least on photo of a Redwood. The bottom of this

one was at least 8 ft across. And that's a very small one.

Go, See, Enjoy, Hike and Photograph

Dave