Post by spacecowboy2006 on Apr 3, 2017 18:26:40 GMT
[Placemarkd at Maripoa Grove]
With the advent of personal device digital cameras and the internet it appears that many photogenic topics are watered down and commonplace. One significant photogenic topic in particular is the giant sequoia trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and their 75 scattered groves on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Worthy of saving to file archive are the earliest portfolio sketches drawn, paintings made, and photos taken of these trees and their groves.
Sequoia gigantea, 1872_B. L. Singley
Sequoia gigantea painting, Albert Bierstadt, BigTree
Sequoia gigantea from Edward Ravenscrofts The Pinetum Britannicum A Plate of Sequoia gigantea The Two Guardsmen
Sequoia gigantea photo w/ Galen Clark
Big Tree Wawona, Mariposa Grove, California, lithographed postal card
Sequoia gigantea steriographs by Carlton Watkins
California Tree, Sequoia National Park, Postal Card G.R.12; postal card or archival photo
Sequoia gigantea, View in General Grant National Park, Photograph by W.L. Huber, 1908
The Mammoth Tree Grove. Portfolio published by Edward Vischer, San Francisco, Ca.: series from 1862 to 1872.
Biblio: Early books on giant sequoia contain many old photos of the trees in all their aspects.
Clark, Galen. 1907. Big Trees of California. Redondo, Ca.: Reflex Pub. Co. 104 p. Several credited photographs.
Ellsworth, Rodney Sydes. 1924. The Giant Sequoias. Oakland, Ca.: J.D. Berger Press. 167 p.
www.yosemite.ca.us/library/big_trees_of_california/big_trees_of_california.pdf
Fry, Walter, and John R. White. 1930. Big Trees. Palo Alto, Ca.: Stanford University Press. 114 p. [Some early documentation; data on germination.]
Grosvenor, Gilbert H. 1917. Our Big Trees Saved. National Geographic Magazine, January 31(1) 1-11.
Hutchings, James. 1859. Mammoth Trees of California. Hutching’s California Magazine.
Illustrated London News, February 11, 1854. Exotic Nursery at Chelsea receives living seedlings of Sequoia gigantea.
The Mammoth Tree Grove. Portfolio published by Edward Vischer, San Francisco, Ca.: series from 1862 to 1872.
Murray, Dr. Andrew. 1859-1860. Notes on California Trees, 2 vols., with lithographs; part 2 including the sequoias. Transcriptions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 6: 330-353. Book edition compiled by Wm. Murray of San Francisco and published in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Osborn, Henry, Fairfield. 1919. Sequoia — the Auld Lang Syne of Trees. Natural History 19: 598-613. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
The Pinetum Britannicum: A descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees Cultivated in Great Britain, Edinburgh and London, 1884, 3 vols. [Account of the propagation of Giant Sequoia in Great Britain from seeds imported by Veitch and others].
Prince, W.R. 1854. The Giant Taxodium of California, Magazine of Horticulture, Boston 20(5): 243.
Price, Wm.W. 1893. Discovery of a New Grove of Sequoia Gigantea. San Francisco: T.S. Brandagee, ed. Zoe 3: 132-133. Placer Grove. Reprinted in Sierra Club Bulletin1(1): 1895.
Robinson, Charles D. 1882. The two redwoods. The Californian 5(30) 485-491.
Shinn, C.H. 1889. The Giant Sequoia. Garden and Forest 2(96): 614-615, Dec.25.
__. 1896. Sequoia gigantea. Rep. Ag. St. California iv.
Shirley, James Clifford. 1936. The Redwoods of Coast and Sierra. University of Ca.
Stewart, George W. 1930. Big Trees of the Giant Forest. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson. 103 p.
White, John R. 1934. Among the Big Trees of California. National Geographic Magazine, August 66(2): 218-232.
Wilson, Herbert Earl. 1928. The Lore and Lure of Sequoia / The Sequoia Gigantea: Its History and Description. Los Angeles, Ca.: Wolfer Printing Company. 132 p.
Winslow, C.F. Dr. 1854. Wislow’s letter from the mountains, the big tree. California Farmer 2(8): 58, August.
As for current photographs being a continuum from the past, nothing devalues the significance of giant sequoia photographs more than lacking grove name in the title! To give far more meaning and worth to your giant sequoia photos, add the grove name to the title.
Sierra Redwoods, or Giant Sequoias, are easy to recognize, even from a distance, by their tufted blue-green foliage and the backlighting of the symmetrical arrangement of their branches.
In their presence it is difficult to comprehend or even try to understand their place in the environment. It is simply their presence, that they are there, that they are… which makes them worthy of seeing, sketching, or photographing.
“….with a physiognomy almost godlike, and so old…. No description can give any adequate idea of their singular majesty, much less their beauty.” John Muir, Hunting Big Redwoods, Atlantic Monthly, September 1901.]
Another factor to consider while taking giant sequoia photos is biological and ecological aspects of the trees and groves. This should include:
Bark: The huge reddish boles of old trees are their most outstanding characteristic. “…their majestic cinnamon-colored trunks in long perspective exquisitely wreathed with small green sprays, and many an aged storm-scarred tree with huge angular arms outspread, overgrown with yellow lichen and surrounded with trees of faultless taper….” John Muir, The Giant Forest of the Kaweah, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, October 22, 1875
Association with other conifer species: Many sugar pines and firs are as tall as some of the mature sequoias, and may have large trunks that are made minor next to Sequoiadendron.
It is a remarkable fact the genetic information within such a tiny seed eventually develops into such a massive living creature.
Photographic evidence of Giant Sequoia sprouts and young seedlings in the wild are virtually non-existent, and therefore highly valued for research.
With the advent of personal device digital cameras and the internet it appears that many photogenic topics are watered down and commonplace. One significant photogenic topic in particular is the giant sequoia trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and their 75 scattered groves on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Worthy of saving to file archive are the earliest portfolio sketches drawn, paintings made, and photos taken of these trees and their groves.
Sequoia gigantea, 1872_B. L. Singley
Sequoia gigantea painting, Albert Bierstadt, BigTree
Sequoia gigantea from Edward Ravenscrofts The Pinetum Britannicum A Plate of Sequoia gigantea The Two Guardsmen
Sequoia gigantea photo w/ Galen Clark
Big Tree Wawona, Mariposa Grove, California, lithographed postal card
Sequoia gigantea steriographs by Carlton Watkins
California Tree, Sequoia National Park, Postal Card G.R.12; postal card or archival photo
Sequoia gigantea, View in General Grant National Park, Photograph by W.L. Huber, 1908
The Mammoth Tree Grove. Portfolio published by Edward Vischer, San Francisco, Ca.: series from 1862 to 1872.
Biblio: Early books on giant sequoia contain many old photos of the trees in all their aspects.
Clark, Galen. 1907. Big Trees of California. Redondo, Ca.: Reflex Pub. Co. 104 p. Several credited photographs.
Ellsworth, Rodney Sydes. 1924. The Giant Sequoias. Oakland, Ca.: J.D. Berger Press. 167 p.
www.yosemite.ca.us/library/big_trees_of_california/big_trees_of_california.pdf
Fry, Walter, and John R. White. 1930. Big Trees. Palo Alto, Ca.: Stanford University Press. 114 p. [Some early documentation; data on germination.]
Grosvenor, Gilbert H. 1917. Our Big Trees Saved. National Geographic Magazine, January 31(1) 1-11.
Hutchings, James. 1859. Mammoth Trees of California. Hutching’s California Magazine.
Illustrated London News, February 11, 1854. Exotic Nursery at Chelsea receives living seedlings of Sequoia gigantea.
The Mammoth Tree Grove. Portfolio published by Edward Vischer, San Francisco, Ca.: series from 1862 to 1872.
Murray, Dr. Andrew. 1859-1860. Notes on California Trees, 2 vols., with lithographs; part 2 including the sequoias. Transcriptions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 6: 330-353. Book edition compiled by Wm. Murray of San Francisco and published in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Osborn, Henry, Fairfield. 1919. Sequoia — the Auld Lang Syne of Trees. Natural History 19: 598-613. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
The Pinetum Britannicum: A descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees Cultivated in Great Britain, Edinburgh and London, 1884, 3 vols. [Account of the propagation of Giant Sequoia in Great Britain from seeds imported by Veitch and others].
Prince, W.R. 1854. The Giant Taxodium of California, Magazine of Horticulture, Boston 20(5): 243.
Price, Wm.W. 1893. Discovery of a New Grove of Sequoia Gigantea. San Francisco: T.S. Brandagee, ed. Zoe 3: 132-133. Placer Grove. Reprinted in Sierra Club Bulletin1(1): 1895.
Robinson, Charles D. 1882. The two redwoods. The Californian 5(30) 485-491.
Shinn, C.H. 1889. The Giant Sequoia. Garden and Forest 2(96): 614-615, Dec.25.
__. 1896. Sequoia gigantea. Rep. Ag. St. California iv.
Shirley, James Clifford. 1936. The Redwoods of Coast and Sierra. University of Ca.
Stewart, George W. 1930. Big Trees of the Giant Forest. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson. 103 p.
White, John R. 1934. Among the Big Trees of California. National Geographic Magazine, August 66(2): 218-232.
Wilson, Herbert Earl. 1928. The Lore and Lure of Sequoia / The Sequoia Gigantea: Its History and Description. Los Angeles, Ca.: Wolfer Printing Company. 132 p.
Winslow, C.F. Dr. 1854. Wislow’s letter from the mountains, the big tree. California Farmer 2(8): 58, August.
As for current photographs being a continuum from the past, nothing devalues the significance of giant sequoia photographs more than lacking grove name in the title! To give far more meaning and worth to your giant sequoia photos, add the grove name to the title.
Sierra Redwoods, or Giant Sequoias, are easy to recognize, even from a distance, by their tufted blue-green foliage and the backlighting of the symmetrical arrangement of their branches.
In their presence it is difficult to comprehend or even try to understand their place in the environment. It is simply their presence, that they are there, that they are… which makes them worthy of seeing, sketching, or photographing.
“….with a physiognomy almost godlike, and so old…. No description can give any adequate idea of their singular majesty, much less their beauty.” John Muir, Hunting Big Redwoods, Atlantic Monthly, September 1901.]
Another factor to consider while taking giant sequoia photos is biological and ecological aspects of the trees and groves. This should include:
Bark: The huge reddish boles of old trees are their most outstanding characteristic. “…their majestic cinnamon-colored trunks in long perspective exquisitely wreathed with small green sprays, and many an aged storm-scarred tree with huge angular arms outspread, overgrown with yellow lichen and surrounded with trees of faultless taper….” John Muir, The Giant Forest of the Kaweah, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, October 22, 1875
Association with other conifer species: Many sugar pines and firs are as tall as some of the mature sequoias, and may have large trunks that are made minor next to Sequoiadendron.
It is a remarkable fact the genetic information within such a tiny seed eventually develops into such a massive living creature.
Photographic evidence of Giant Sequoia sprouts and young seedlings in the wild are virtually non-existent, and therefore highly valued for research.
