Morning God Rays breaking through a Redwood Forest, Northern CA. I liked the God rays, the sunburst, all the repeating verticals forming a strong pattern with the one tree in the middle standing out. I moved around until I had some separation between the trees.
I recently visited the majestic redwood forests along the Northern California coast after 8 years. It was another reminder for me that I am fortunate to be living within driving distance from some of the most stunning old-growth forests in the world. The redwood forests are carefully preserved with super tall, gigantic trees that are hundreds of years old, some even over a thousand years old. They have seen generations and generations of people and they quietly remind us how minuscule and temporary our problems are. They continue to remain unaffected by things like elections, pandemics and fuel prices.
The mystique of these timeless coastal forests draws you in to explore, to celebrate and to get inspired. When the conditions are right, you can find a magical interplay of light beams and fog that can evoke a mystic feeling.
Here are some photographs showing light breaking through the redwood forest during my recent trip. I hope to share another blog post soon with photos of the redwoods in fog.
Sunbeams breaking through low fog in a redwood grove, I wanted to capture the strong beam of light in the foreground with more light beams on the far left. ,The slight fog added to the overall mood of the scene.Sun breaking through a redwood grove. I wanted to capture the sun bursting through this redwood grove with some nice light on the ferns in the ground. Again, I moved around quite a bit until I could get as much separation between the trees as possible. Sunlit ferns along a path through the forest. I felt the light on the ferns along the path leading into the redwood grove was interesting.Sunlit plant and ferns in a redwood forest grove. I found this beautiful grove of trees almost offering a ready made composition with redwood tries lined up along a slight slope with some nice ferns in the foreground. I also liked the nice soft light on some of the trees. I took several photographs of this grove with different compositions both wide and tight, but I liked this one the best with the sunlit plant and ferns in the foreground.Redwood trees converging at top with the camera pointed up. I had point4ed my camera up 90 degrees for this photo as I really liked the strong lines converging on top as if to create a canopy in the forest.
During this trip, I also had a lot of fun photographing the coastline along the California/Oregon border. I will share those photographs soon.
