Oregon and The Redwoods
Our family travelled out to Oregon this summer to visit family, and as always Oregon was beautiful! I usually bring a camera but the these trips aren’t about photography - it’s a good old American vacation.
My mother-in-law always keeps an amazing garden with roses and other flowers, so I try to spend some time finding a new and unique composition.
Each year we try to find some part of Oregon we haven’t visited yet and this year we realized we might be starting to exhaust the list - well, actually I don’t think that is possible in Oregon, but we have certainly checked off a lot of the main natural areas people think about when visiting Oregon. But, we have always wanted to visit the Redwoods in California and this trip seemed like a great time to do it!
We made it a day trip which meant a very early start and a ~4 hour journey to get there. Being accustomed to driving in Chicago, we are used to terrible weather, but we don’t have huge mountain passes and tiny little mountain roads to navigate, so we took our time getting there that morning. Once we made it to Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park we had a little lunch and hit the trail - and amazing doesn’t start to describe what we found!
The little hole in this tree was big enough for people to stand in and the trees themselves just dwarf everything around them. My son decided to count rings on a fallen tree stump and realized just how old these trees really are.
The textures and colors throughout the forest were remarkable! One day I would like to come back and just pick apart all the interesting details for compositions, but I would be worried there would never be enough time to do it justice.
After hiking several trails we wound up on the gravel banks of a little river - a theme that repeats itself almost every year we visit Oregon. Is there anything that looks more Pacific Northwest than this?
On our way home we hit our first In-N-Out Burger as a family - which ironically was in Grants Pass, Oregon.
The following frames were my favorites (other than our family snapshots on my phone!) of the Redwwoods. They each depict to me the feeling of the old-growth ancient forest in a way words just can’t. A tree root growing around another tree, the sharp texture of the bark, and new growth stemming from a dead log as the cycle of life starts again.
Moss-covered tree trunk - about 8 feet wide
Nikon Z6iii • 35mm • f/4 • 1/100s • ISO 200
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