redwood – Matt Tilghman Photography https://www.matttilghman.com Experiences Through Imagery Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:37:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 Golden Cascade Falls in Afternoon Sunshine https://www.matttilghman.com/photos/golden-cascade-falls-afternoon-sunshine Sun, 03 Sep 2017 19:29:29 +0000 https://www.matttilghman.com/?post_type=product&p=3507 Golden Cascade Falls, in Big Basin Redwoods, California, is a beautiful and unique waterfall. Its orange color comes from algae growing on the rocks.

This is the kind of scene that if it were in the Appalachian Mountains, it would not be the same. (Or so I imagine.) Every waterfall I know on the East Coast that looks like this is overrun with tourists. Kids just can't seem to help themselves from sliding down the rocks and busting their bums. But here at Golden Cascade, deep in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, I was practically by myself. But maybe it's not an East Coast vs West Coast thing. Could be the fact that it's a six mile, semi-strenuous hike to get here. Could also be that for several months out of the year, these mountains don't get much rain, and this waterfall wouldn't be "slide-able." In fact, maybe it would never really be slideable, because there's not much of a pool at the bottom. But something tells me that they'd have built a road anyways, and at the very least it'd be a tourist trap.

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]]> Golden Cascade Falls, in Big Basin Redwoods, California, is a beautiful and unique waterfall. Its orange color comes from algae growing on the rocks. This is the kind of scene that if it were in the Appalachian Mountains, it would not be the same. (Or so I imagine.) Every waterfall I know on the East Coast that looks like this is overrun with tourists. Kids just can’t seem to help themselves from sliding down the rocks and busting their bums. But here at Golden Cascade, deep in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, I was practically by myself. But maybe it’s not an East Coast vs West Coast thing. Could be the fact that it’s a six mile, semi-strenuous hike to get here. Could also be that for several months out of the year, these mountains don’t get much rain, and this waterfall wouldn’t be “slide-able.” In fact, maybe it would never really be slideable, because there’s not much of a pool at the bottom. But something tells me that they’d have built a road anyways, and at the very least it’d be a tourist trap.

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]]> Magic in Thornewood Open Space https://www.matttilghman.com/photos/magic-thornewood-open-space Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:23:59 +0000 http://www.matttilghman.com/?post_type=product&p=2310 This small waterfall amongst the Redwood roots appeared only due to an intense amount of rainfall, in Thornewood Open Space, California.

This photograph is of a small unnamed (and usually nonexistent) waterfall in Thornewood Open Space, near Palo Alto, California. Thornewood is on the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, so it doesn't get as much fog as the Redwood forests on the west side of the mountains. This means that it dries out faster, and can look quite dejected in the summer months. However, when the rainy season picks up, the forests can explode with life almost instantly. This photograph was taken during an especially heavy stretch of rain. In fact, the rain was falling quite hard even during this photo – I was soaked from head to toe, but thankfully had a bag to protect my camera. Waterfalls and ponds started appearing in places I'd never seen them before, and the water was especially opaque from rinsing away the dry summer soils. This small waterfall particularly caught my eye, since it was flowing right next to some giant Redwood trees. This scene seemed to me like it was the stuff of imagination, not reality!

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]]> This small waterfall amongst the Redwood roots appeared only due to an intense amount of rainfall, in Thornewood Open Space, California. This photograph is of a small unnamed (and usually nonexistent) waterfall in Thornewood Open Space, near Palo Alto, California. Thornewood is on the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, so it doesn’t get as much fog as the Redwood forests on the west side of the mountains. This means that it dries out faster, and can look quite dejected in the summer months. However, when the rainy season picks up, the forests can explode with life almost instantly. This photograph was taken during an especially heavy stretch of rain. In fact, the rain was falling quite hard even during this photo – I was soaked from head to toe, but thankfully had a bag to protect my camera. Waterfalls and ponds started appearing in places I’d never seen them before, and the water was especially opaque from rinsing away the dry summer soils. This small waterfall particularly caught my eye, since it was flowing right next to some giant Redwood trees. This scene seemed to me like it was the stuff of imagination, not reality! Purchase “Magic in Thornewood Open Space” Fine Art Print:
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