Ecclesiae: Felton Redwoods Cathedral Grove
Cathedral Grove earns its name from the inside — the old-growth coast redwoods here rise as columns, their trunks too vertical and too regular to read as trees in the conventional sense. The canopy closes overhead in the way vaulted ceilings do, at a height that makes the space simultaneously intimate and enormous. Made after the Roaring Camp train returned to the station and the grove emptied, the image titled Ecclesiae holds the redwoods in the brief interval when the light falls through cleanly, without competing presence. Henry Cowell Redwood State Park sits in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where old-growth coast redwood survived in scattered pockets — and this grove is among the most intact.
Cathedral Grove earns its name from the inside — the old-growth coast redwoods here rise as columns, their trunks too vertical and too regular to read as trees in the conventional sense. The canopy closes overhead in the way vaulted ceilings do, at a height that makes the space simultaneously intimate and enormous. Made after the Roaring Camp train returned to the station and the grove emptied, the image titled Ecclesiae holds the redwoods in the brief interval when the light falls through cleanly, without competing presence. Henry Cowell Redwood State Park sits in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where old-growth coast redwood survived in scattered pockets — and this grove is among the most intact.