Click image to enlarge. Photo Credit: Michael Nichols (National Geographic Stock)

“The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It’s not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.”
– John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie: In Search of America

Photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols describes how his team of researchers and technicians made a unique composite image of an entire redwood tree here. Lots of interesting redwood facts available at National Geographic here.