Mystery coast redwood #7 ..Land of giants and red shirts !

by Mario Vaden

 

This giant redwood looks peculiar. This is another of the redwoods found when we were talking about Star Trek when bushwhacking. Evident in the photo is western hemlock. Chris Atkins is on the left side for a sense of size . Chris is one of the characters in The Wild Trees by Richard Preston.

Maybe this is a good time to tell the story behind the red shirts seen in many of my redwood images. Years ago, after hundreds redwood photos with guys in drab shirts, I decided to try a few documentary images with women around some largest redwoods. The first was Lost Monarch with with Kiera, who chose a red dress. After I shared it on Facebook and the photo got about 10,000 shares and 1,000,000 views, I decided to buy a red shirt to try for my own photos. One of the red shirt images with Howland Hill Giant became the cover for 101 Things to Do magazine. From that point in time, I brought a red shirt and even extra red T-shirt like one I loaned to Chris.

Red is very effective if drawing some attention to the person to show scale is desired. Time after time, images with the red fabric got more views, shares and likes than other with darker clothing such as my forest green business shirt seen in some older Screaming Titans images. But I will use other colors too.

 

 

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