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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.

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chezgky OP t1_j6bnsb5 wrote

Probably the clarity pull + texture push to compensate 😃

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SoloExperiencer t1_j6bg41z wrote

A rare example of a photo of a forest in bright sunlight that works perfectly. Well done!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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sfcnmone t1_j6dkzdd wrote

Lucky you!!

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CAAugirl t1_j6ekxn7 wrote

I was lucky. Even more so as I was able to work 3 seasons in Yellowstone.

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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.

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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.

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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

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skyas87 t1_j6bv7g7 wrote

I never see these pictures after a rain in winter or spring. That's when the redwoods are most beautiful.

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Oldus_Fartus t1_j6cfa9s wrote

I used to pronounce Yosemite "yaws mite".

I still do, but I used to, too.

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Malfegorus t1_j6deszu wrote

You sure that's California? Looks a lot like the forest moon of endor.

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Ripper42 t1_j6df58y wrote

Love it, used to live in Wawona and those trees were my tallest neighbors.

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ggoran_ t1_j6d11ck wrote

looks like LOTR can be casted here

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Odd-Meal-7713 t1_j6d1fzx wrote

I am amazed at the size of these trees.

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chezgky OP t1_j6d3166 wrote

A person would be about as tall as the light part on the right side of the rightmost sequoia.

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VocidyWasTaken t1_j6j0czx wrote

Looks like the setting of a fairytale! 🧚😍

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