i.imgur.com — Nick Nichols, the “Indiana Jones of Photography," produced the first-ever high-definition, seamless composite photo of an entire redwood. It’s 300 feet tall and between 1,500 and 2,000 years old. The photo was created with 84 very high-resolution images, taken at approximately 3-foot intervals from a vertical dolly rigged parallel to the tree.
Mar 7, 2010 View in Crawl 4
bytemeaholeMar 8, 2010
The giant red woods are amazing, but the Sequoia's are the ones that take your breath away. I have a photo somewhere from my days in grad-school with my car parked in front of one. It looks like a match-box car sitting in front of this monster tree, and today it would be considered a large car, not like the tiny things people drive today to save gas. That beast would pass anything on the road but a gas station. :) Sequoia's are the largest tree in volume, whereas the Giant Red Woods are the tallest - the fact that they occur together, makes is so that you become jaded quickly since everything is so much bigger than what you are used to. I am very glad that the Sequoia's proved to be non-viable as a timber source (the wood is too brittle), or they would have logged them all and the world would be poorer because of it.
eelriverMar 8, 2010
Most likely just a view of shorter redwoods.
phazoniMar 8, 2010
That tree in Avatar was bigger than this.
wateryouthMar 8, 2010
784x2400.....wow..?? Where is a full res one?
zebceponafMar 8, 2010
I'm going to guess that the photographer wanted this look. I find it pretty unbelievable that a top level photog, along with all the people involved along the way that produced this photo didn't know how to use the crop function in photoshop.
mac734Mar 8, 2010
In full for the first time....because before then there were too many trees around it to get a clear shot. Joy!
invidious02Mar 8, 2010
if you look real close you can see a man on that tree
bighimMar 9, 2010
Yessss!!!!