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NexOrigin

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Beth Moon, a photographer based in San Francisco, has been searching for the world’s oldest trees for the past 14 years.

She has traveled all around the globe to capture the most magnificent trees that grow in remote locations and look as old as the world itself.

“Standing as the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments, I believe these symbolic trees will take on a greater significance, especially at a time when our focus is directed at finding better ways to live with the environment” writes Moon in her artist statement.

Sixty of Beth Moon’s duotone photos were published in a book titled “Ancient Trees: Portraits Of Time”. Here you can have a sneak preview of the book, full of strangest and most magnificent trees ever.

More info:
bethmoon.com

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18-Feb-2021 21:55:50

NexOrigin

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Megycal said :
edit to add: I wish the photos were in colour
Most of her photos are B&W, but she does have a collection of color photos in her "Diamond Nights" collection:

https://bethmoon.com/diamond-nights/
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18-Feb-2021 23:10:14

Corder
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FiFi LaFeles said :
That's some weird looking trees, almost unreal :O

The only ones I recognise are the Boababs and the Hobbit house (Stow-on-the-Wold).
Yep, looks straight out of fantasy video games. :O
Tenebri said :
that triggers my trypophobia
lol, can relate
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18-Feb-2021 23:40:55

Dadizar
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Trees are not always what they seem.

A unique thing about aspen trees is their ability to clone themselves. While the tree does produce seeds, a process known as “cloning” does most of the reproduction (cloning occurs when roots sprout new trees that share an identical genetic makeup). There can be many clones in an aspen grove or the entire grove can be one clone, whose leaves all turn at the same time.
In fact, there’s an aspen clone in Utah that covers 100 acres and has been estimated at 40 times the weight of a blue whale, making it the largest living thing on Earth – not to mention the oldest. Its age has been estimated at 80,000 years
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18-Feb-2021 23:46:05

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