Giants of the Foreworld - Split Tone
by Eric Glaser
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Giants of the Foreworld - Split Tone
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Eric Glaser
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Photograph - Digital Photography
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"Giants of the Foreworld - Split Tone"
Distinct from all others, the sequoias are a race apart. The big tree and the redwood of the Coast Range are the only surviving members of that ancient family, the giants of the foreworld. Their immense trunks might be the fluted columns of some noble order of architecture, surviving its builders like the marble temples of Greece,—columns three hundred feet high and thirty feet through at the base. Such a vast nave, such majestic aisles, such sublime spires, only the forest cathedrals know. Symmetrical silver firs, giant cedars and spruce grow side by side with sugar-pines of vast and irregular outline, whose huge branches, like outstretched arms, hold aloft the splendid cones—such is the ancient world.
It is doubtful if these giant conifers are really as companionable as our eastern beeches and maples and oaks. The company is almost too grandiose; their dignity is overpowering.
~Stanton Davis Kirkham, "The Forest," In The Open, 1908
Image Capture: March 17, 2022
Merced Grove of Giant Sequoias
Yosemite National Park
California
United States
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August 24th, 2022
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