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Title: really BIG trees
Post by: inkydigit on September 30, 2009, 06:31:49 AM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.html?ft=1&f=97635953 (http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/09/redwoods.html?ft=1&f=97635953)
I would love to climb/abseil some of these!
:)
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: domdib on September 30, 2009, 10:44:48 AM
Just to be in the presence of such giants would be fantastic. It's a shame that there don't seem to be any decent models of redwoods (correct me if I'm wrong!) - perhaps they're just too large and complex to model convincingly?
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: otakar on September 30, 2009, 06:23:38 PM
And to think they cut down most of these for wood...Only a fraction of the old growth remains today and it's going to take thousands of years literally to partially recover (if allowed). You have to be there to believe the size of these. You will feel so small.
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: Oshyan on October 11, 2009, 01:47:23 AM
Awesome photo. I'm fortunate enough to have some of these beauties within a short driving distance. :)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: Marcos Silveira on October 28, 2009, 06:28:29 AM
Pine trees are never second in terms of height!!! 8) I always found them beautifully majestic!!!!
I'm completely in love for an species in here, the Araucaria Angustifolia!!! It's so beautiful!!!
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: Kadri on October 28, 2009, 09:22:01 AM
I used to live in the near of Schwarzwald in Germany in my childhood ( In Niederramstadt near Darmstadt). There was everywhere forests. Here where i live now aren't any.

I would love to see this woods. Think of a treehouse on this :D

I envy you Osyhan  ;D

Kadri.
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: JimB on October 28, 2009, 02:16:07 PM
The version in the magazine itself (as in one you buy off the shelf and is made of paper) has that photo as a massive fold out. Awesome.
Title: Re: really BIG trees
Post by: Kadri on October 28, 2009, 03:37:20 PM
Quote from: JimB on October 28, 2009, 02:16:07 PM
The version in the magazine itself (as in one you buy off the shelf and is made of paper) has that photo as a massive fold out. Awesome.

This made me smile JimB. Times are really changing. Ten years ago you had not make such a remark.
In İstanbul i saw ones a writing : You can find soil here.  I looked at my environment and then i realised there wasn't realy any soil. Yes it was a flower shop.
But it was sad and strange. And this strangenes is growing every year. We really should protect what is left  :(

Kadri.