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an image of redwood trees, and in particular from the framing, two in particular - a broad-branched specimen and the flat-topped one near it. warm hazy light fills the image, and the angle of the light casts the viewer-side edges of the trees dominating the majority of the frame into fuzzily-warm shadows, deepened by the dense regrowth and dark trunks beneath.
"antenna-tree in the basin" the titular antenna-tree is a redwood specimen with a weirdly broad and kind of flat top, looking rather different to its more traditionally-shaped companion next to it. the image is one of myriad parallel vertical lines - the burnt trunks of the redwoods of big basin and their fuzzy short coats of regrowth - standing almost-perpendicular to the gently rolling top-to-bottom, right-to-left momentum of the image. godrays, lensflare, and hazy light tinge the greenscape of the cliffs and mountainside with an inviting warmth, but this is a photo off the side of a ridge.
"out cropping" an image of a high mountainside/top in the santa cruz mountains. verdant brushy growth fills the image, scattered here and there with skeletally dry or dead branches and bushes. a copse of trees grows out to the left from the arc of motion in the right side and fore of the image, though they are outdone in height and frame-anchoring by both the bushes in the foreground and the big scraggly dead sun-bleached fork-trunked tree on the middle third column of the scene.
"STAND" a small cops of white-barked sun-bleached trees at high altitude, spindly branches bare from either exposure or earlier incident. the foreground is a mass grave of branches and trunks, all spidery capillary-branches and neuronal web-tangles of boughs amidst the lower greenscape. behind the arboroskeletal wall in the front are [at least] 12 trees, their apexes peeking out from the coat of leaves they've managed to regrow and/or keep, bone-white against the empty blue void of sky. a few of the trees starring in the sky and background of the image have other bent and angular branches jutting out at odd angles from their brushy green needle-coats; the bone-white colour of their bark gives them a decidedly limblike quality.
(distance beyond shade) another subsection of "TREMENDOUS WALL", this is a smaller piece that, again, relies on elements outside the frame and in the furthest reaches of the background to try to crowd the viewer in shadow, trunk, and branch. you have a bird's eye view from these gnarled branches. but that is all you have of a bird.
(INDOMITABLE TOWERS OF GREEN) a focused showcase of a few of the brushy redwoods in TREMENDOUS WALL OF CHAR AND GREEN, this variant edit exists simply to better highlight the trees in the center-frame of the larger image. past a dead specimen and a wide brushy other, they still stand. contrast is heightened to enhance their green-ness amidst the burnt blacks and greys around them.
"TREMENDOUS WALL OF CHAR AND GREEN" a photo of the surviving trees in big basin state park, taken from the edge of one of the winding paths into it. the enormous trees below reach into the sky that is the horizon of the image, giving the viewer a friendly reminder of just how large some lifeforms on earth are. the sides of the image are framed by scraggly branches and bright verdant bushy limbs, inviting the viewer deeper into the sky-void full of tree. the trees themselves are mostly reduced to spires with charcoal hide, though there are more than enough specimens to not fill the observer with a sense of environmental melancholy. and besides, many of burnt trees have green on them again by now. fire is part of the redwoods' life cycle, after all.
"bleed - sky" a variant of "BLEED UP OPEN ONWARD AND INTO HEAVEN" with contrast and exposure tweaked to make the sky a blinding sheet of radiance that burns the distant mountains into fog.
"BLEED UP OPEN ONWARD AND INTO HEAVEN" a wide shot of big basin in the mid-late afternoon, the atmospheric haze coating the treetops of the basin glowing bright in the near-gold sun, giving the sky and distance in the scene a sort of dreamlike feel. coming closer to the viewer are countless bottlebrush redwoods, regrown with stubby close-kept needles after the cataclysmic fire. their closer profiles and fire-charred trunks make them especially striking as countless parallel vertical stripes filling the bottom half of the image. as a reprieve, some scraggly brush and closer trees are here to frame the bottom and sides of the image, but the top and right, aglow with the sun, is open. bleed up, open onward, and into heaven.
A WARM LIGHT SUFFUSES an image of several burnt redwood trees with six years of regrowth juxtaposed against a sun-glowing hazy sky the foreground is crowded with myriad other plants in a sort of echo of the stand dominating the image in the background