This weeks challenge is Sense of Scale and it has been chosen for us by Sofia from photographias.
I wasn’t sure if I needed people or not, or how to tell scale, but when I read her blog I realised that I could do this. I know I seem to say that every week.
If you want to know what Sofia has said please go and read her blog post on it, photographias.
I couldn’t help thinking of big things and I think what I have decided to do is show you things that I was really surprised with how big they were when I stood next to them.
Redwood forests from California. They are beautiful trees, but also giant ones. They just go up and up and up. I was in awe when I walked through them. We have some here but they are babies compared to these ones.
The scale of this following tree is deceptive. It doesn’t look that big, but apparently, you would need about 12 people holding hands to stretch around this tree. It is an Australian native and is about 800 years old.
Mountains are strange to me, I mean I don’t see them very often. Really, we only see massive ones when we Australians go overseas. There are mountains here, but nothing like what you see in other countries. Here are some from the USA.
Wind turbines we see in the distance and we can be fooled into believing they aren’t very big. I remember the first time I got up close to them and I couldn’t believe how big they were. They are amazing.
Now down to the small scale. I love getting insects in the garden and here are some of the small creatures that you can find in the garden, or the butterfly house at the zoo.
Interesting challenge and I want to thank Sofia for being our host. Please go and take a look at her post, the link is at the top of this post.
Maybe you would like to participate this week, it is a great challenge to do. To find out how to join the Lens-Artists Challenge, click here for more info.
What a neat shot!
Thank you.
Trees and mountains – yes, they are hard to understand the size of. You showed marvelous images of them, and the insects are gorgeous. I did love the wind turbines too – great fun and the results were almost audible!
Thank you Ann-Christine. I think you do have to see them to really understand. I was just saying to someone how I’m glad I went to New York because I don’t think you really understand how big it really is unless you see it for yourself.
Massive trees are always a challenge to convey how big they really are, especially without people to help out but yours are truly majestic. And then the long exposure for the wind turbines is just genius. I’m glad you joined us, Leanne. I always enjoy your take on the challenges.
I agree, and you really need a wide angle to really get them. Thank you so much Sofia, I have to say I enjoy these challenges.
Great contrasts of scale in your chosen subjects! I especially love your mountain shots 😮
Thank you Sarah, I love mountains. 😀
Very cool!
Thank you Tim.
The trees and mountains are majestic.
I agree Nora, thank you.
A beautiful post and photos! That wind turbine long exposure is awesome!
Thank you Egidio, I love those wind turbines so it was fun doing that.
Some wonderful images as always Leanne – I see we share a love of the giant redwoods. Hard not to love them once you’ve been among them.
Thank you Tina, I think it would be hard to find someone who doesn’t love them. They are really incredible.
I love all your photos and I remember going to the Redwood Forest when I was younger. They are truly amazing!
Thank you Sally, aren’t they amazing, we have a couple of small redwood forests here, but they were only planted about 80 years ago, so the trees aren’t that big really.
Such an interesting post, Leanne!
From the giant Redwoods to the little beauties in the garden…
The natural world has these extreme examples of scale, right?
Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
Yeah it does, massive extremes from the large to the tiny. Thank you Sreejith.
Beautiful photos. Both big and small subjects were fun to see
Thank you Sheila.
You have some interesting images here Leanne. I especially liked you showing us the insect world. Well done!
Thank you Anne, thought I needed to have some small scale compared to the big scale.
Very beautiful photos, Leanne! I love what you did with the turbines. (I really dislike those things). Our west coast is where the big mountains are, near Las Vegas we have Mount Charleston at 11,916 feet.
Thank you John, it was fun doing that with them. I love them, I have to say I love looking at them far more than a coal fired power station. Wow that is a massive mountain, I think the tallest we have here is around 7000 feet. I have never been to it, but people go to the top all the time.
Behind Alaska, Nevada is the most mountainous state in the union.
I’m surprised at that, I would have thought Utah or Colorado, so that is interesting. Do the mountains there get snow on them John.
Some of the mountains that surround Las Vegas do get snow on top, it’s very beautiful! It has snowed at my place two times in ten years. It basically melts as soon as it hits the ground. Yay!
I can imagine how beautiful they would be. Some mountains get snow here, but I can’t see them. Wow, snow, I like the idea that it doesn’t stick around.
Me too! Most winters the snow does get down here, it’s usually above 4000 feet.
I’m sure I’ve told you before that the first time I saw snow I was 30 years old and I was in Denmark. You really have to go out of your way to see it here. I think my mum was in her 50’s when she first saw it.
Wow, Australia is vey different from the northern hemisphere. 😮
Yeah we are in some ways. I just found out that we are the driest continent in the world. If that gives you any idea.
It does snow here, but only in a a few places. Since we don’t have a lot of mountains, we don’t get a lot of snow. Sadly.
I see, most of what I see of your country seems very dry but since I live in a desert already, no worries. 😬😬❤️❤️🤭
Yeah, the east coast of Australia is quite green, if you do google earth of Australia most of it is red from desert, but the east and south coast is very green, most of the time. We have a bit of everything here and a lot of desert.
Ohhh, that sounds so good! 😊
Yeah it is. I love in the south so I get the green, my mum not so much. 😀