#BigBasin
LightNews LightNews
thatsmypark.bsky.social
Come see why so many people are rediscovering Big Basin. Learn more & plan your visit: www.thatsmypark.org/bigbasin.
Parking fees help Friends support the parks.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park - ThatsMyPark
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is the oldest state park in California. The majority of the park burned in the 2020 CZU Fire, destroying all historic structures, park infrastructure and severely damaging the trail system. A limited portion of the park is now open day-use access.
www.thatsmypark.org
October 28, 2026 at 3:47 PM
glowcloud.pics
needed to be in some deep trees the other weekend, so we went out with our camera to bear witness to big basin in autumn, six years after the burn.

a warm light suffused all the bottlebrush regrowth on the charred trees.

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
A WARM LIGHT SUFFUSES an image of several burnt redwood trees with six years of regrowth juxtaposed against a sun-glowing hazy sky the foreground is crowded with myriad other plants in a sort of echo of the stand dominating the image in the background
October 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
glowcloud.pics
bleed up open onward and into heaven
scouring light aglow throughout the haze

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"BLEED UP OPEN ONWARD AND INTO HEAVEN" a wide shot of big basin in the mid-late afternoon, the atmospheric haze coating the treetops of the basin glowing bright in the near-gold sun, giving the sky and distance in the scene a sort of dreamlike feel. coming closer to the viewer are countless bottlebrush redwoods, regrown with stubby close-kept needles after the cataclysmic fire. their closer profiles and fire-charred trunks make them especially striking as countless parallel vertical stripes filling the bottom half of the image. as a reprieve, some scraggly brush and closer trees are here to frame the bottom and sides of the image, but the top and right, aglow with the sun, is open. bleed up, open onward, and into heaven.
October 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
glowcloud.pics
been really into trying to increase the Tension in images we capture. helps to be willing to get a little loosey-goosier with the development step.

selectively deepened blacks.
distance beyond shade.

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
(distance beyond shade) another subsection of "TREMENDOUS WALL", this is a smaller piece that, again, relies on elements outside the frame and in the furthest reaches of the background to try to crowd the viewer in shadow, trunk, and branch. you have a bird's eye view from these gnarled branches. but that is all you have of a bird.
October 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
glowcloud.pics
some special variants of this one, just cuz.

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"bleed - sky" a variant of "BLEED UP OPEN ONWARD AND INTO HEAVEN" with contrast and exposure tweaked to make the sky a blinding sheet of radiance that burns the distant mountains into fog. "bleed - small char" a variant of "BLEED UP OPEN ONWARD AND INTO HEAVEN" that focuses on the distant mountains, casting the myriad trees of the basin and mountainsides into murky shadow. the peaks and valleys are evident in the dreamy blue haze commanding the right-cast center of the image, calling to the viewer. the sky has been twisted into a neither-dawn-nor-dusk gradient of radiant blue
October 12, 2026 at 8:19 AM
glowcloud.pics
gonna put the forspecials attached to this one instead of a quotepost because eueuuughh quoteposts

that prior image is dense, y'know? lots of stuff to look at. like this. look at these indomitable towers of green.

#photography #landscape #skyscape #treescape #bigbasin #nemmypix
(INDOMITABLE TOWERS OF GREEN) a focused showcase of a few of the brushy redwoods in TREMENDOUS WALL OF CHAR AND GREEN, this variant edit exists simply to better highlight the trees in the center-frame of the larger image. past a dead specimen and a wide brushy other, they still stand. contrast is heightened to enhance their green-ness amidst the burnt blacks and greys around them.
October 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
glowcloud.pics
there's a sort of
antenna-tree in the basin

that we kind of fell in love with
such a weird shape
not sure if it's like that
from disaster or mistake

#photography #landscape #treescape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"antenna-tree in the basin" the titular antenna-tree is a redwood specimen with a weirdly broad and kind of flat top, looking rather different to its more traditionally-shaped companion next to it. the image is one of myriad parallel vertical lines - the burnt trunks of the redwoods of big basin and their fuzzy short coats of regrowth - standing almost-perpendicular to the gently rolling top-to-bottom, right-to-left momentum of the image. godrays, lensflare, and hazy light tinge the greenscape of the cliffs and mountainside with an inviting warmth, but this is a photo off the side of a ridge.
October 12, 2026 at 8:58 AM
glowcloud.pics
we had to keep stopping while on the road into the park to take pictures off the edge of the cliff because the atmospheric haze and sun and trees were just,

✨☁️💖✨

y'know?

#photography #landscape #skyscape #treescape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"TREMENDOUS WALL OF CHAR AND GREEN" a photo of the surviving trees in big basin state park, taken from the edge of one of the winding paths into it. the enormous trees below reach into the sky that is the horizon of the image, giving the viewer a friendly reminder of just how large some lifeforms on earth are. the sides of the image are framed by scraggly branches and bright verdant bushy limbs, inviting the viewer deeper into the sky-void full of tree. the trees themselves are mostly reduced to spires with charcoal hide, though there are more than enough specimens to not fill the observer with a sense of environmental melancholy. and besides, many of burnt trees have green on them again by now. fire is part of the redwoods' life cycle, after all.
October 12, 2026 at 8:34 AM
glowcloud.pics
out cropping

just really liked this particular scene.

and ya this is a different angle on some of the trees in "stand"! geometry is a fun accomplice for photography.

#photography #landscape #greenscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"out cropping" an image of a high mountainside/top in the santa cruz mountains. verdant brushy growth fills the image, scattered here and there with skeletally dry or dead branches and bushes. a copse of trees grows out to the left from the arc of motion in the right side and fore of the image, though they are outdone in height and frame-anchoring by both the bushes in the foreground and the big scraggly dead sun-bleached fork-trunked tree on the middle third column of the scene.
October 12, 2026 at 8:49 AM
glowcloud.pics
stand
whether at high altitude or in the sense of a
stand of trees

sup upon the sky, as is your wont and birthright
and tower above the dead

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
"STAND" a small cops of white-barked sun-bleached trees at high altitude, spindly branches bare from either exposure or earlier incident. the foreground is a mass grave of branches and trunks, all spidery capillary-branches and neuronal web-tangles of boughs amidst the lower greenscape. behind the arboroskeletal wall in the front are [at least] 12 trees, their apexes peeking out from the coat of leaves they've managed to regrow and/or keep, bone-white against the empty blue void of sky. a few of the trees starring in the sky and background of the image have other bent and angular branches jutting out at odd angles from their brushy green needle-coats; the bone-white colour of their bark gives them a decidedly limblike quality.
October 12, 2026 at 8:42 AM
glowcloud.pics
took some photos that centered these two much more. getting pretty sleepy and less capable of yapping good things about pictures so these'll be our last for the night.

#photography #landscape #skyscape #bigbasin #nemmypix
an image of redwood trees, and in particular from the framing, two in particular - a broad-branched specimen and the flat-topped one near it. warm hazy light fills the image, and the angle of the light casts the viewer-side edges of the trees dominating the majority of the frame into fuzzily-warm shadows, deepened by the dense regrowth and dark trunks beneath. an image of redwood trees, and in particular from the framing, two in particular - a broad-branched specimen and the flat-topped one near it. warm hazy light fills the image, and the angle of the light casts the viewer-side edges of the trees dominating the majority of the frame into fuzzily-warm shadows, deepened by the dense regrowth and dark trunks beneath. this one's a bit wider than the other image with this otherwise identical description in this post, incorporating more of the spire-height and shape of the redwoods six years after the burn.
October 12, 2026 at 9:03 AM
thatsmypark.bsky.social
With the Big Basin Shuttle 🚌 running on weekends & holidays, there's plenty of room for everyone to visit & explore the state park.😄
Learn more about visiting Big Basin Redwoods State Park: www.thatsmypark.org/bigbasin.
Parking fees helps Friends support parks.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park - ThatsMyPark
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is the oldest state park in California. The majority of the park burned in the 2020 CZU Fire, destroying all historic structures, park infrastructure and severely damaging the trail system. A limited portion of the park is now open day-use access.
www.thatsmypark.org
August 31, 2026 at 3:26 PM
thatsmypark.bsky.social
Come see why so many people are rediscovering Big Basin.
Learn more & plan: www.thatsmypark.org/bigbasin.
Parking fees help Friends support the parks.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park - ThatsMyPark
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is the oldest state park in California. The majority of the park burned in the 2020 CZU Fire, destroying all historic structures, park infrastructure and severely damagin...
www.thatsmypark.org
August 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
sempervirensfund.bsky.social
You can visit this enduring sentinel - estimated to be over 2,000 years old - on Redwood Loop Trail in #BigBasin Redwoods State Park.
June 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
chiefsadface.bsky.social
🤔🧐💭💭💭
Bigbasin Redwoods GIF
ALT: Bigbasin Redwoods GIF
media.tenor.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
scicommlab.bsky.social
To wrap up #CAArborWeek, we’re revisiting how #redwoods recover from wildfires. 🌲🔥

Witness the resilience of these iconic giants in our films:

🎥 A Walk in the Woods: lc.cx/walkinthewoods
🎥 Fire Among Giants: lc.cx/fireamonggia...

#WildfireScience #BigBasin #CZUFire #CoastRedwoods
March 12, 2026 at 12:02 PM
scicommlab.bsky.social
Two years after a disastrous fire, #BigBasin Redwood State Park is reopening to the public. @PaulRogersSJMN describes the long road to recovery: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/14/new-video-explores-massive-wildfire-at-big-basin-redwoods-state-park-and-the-forests-recovery/
Watch: New video explores massive wildfire at Big Basin R...
California’s oldest state park set to reopen July 22, two...
www.mercurynews.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
anniesprinkle.bsky.social
Visited #BigBasin redwood forest w Beth. I hadn't been since the CZU fire had burnt 98% of the forest. It was very sad to see the devastation. Also so inspiring to see the resilience and new green growth. 1000s of year old trees surviving near death. Resiliance! (costumes by monicacanilao)
February 4, 2025 at 9:05 PM
awkwardangie.bsky.social
☁️☕️📷 Santa Cruz, CA 🌊

#📷 #roadtrip #vibes #markabbotmemoriallighthouse #waltonlighthouse #BigBasin #centralcoast
April 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
awkwardangie.bsky.social
✨Hiking through the redwoods always feels magical ✨

#SantaCruz #BigBasin #bananaslugs #forest #redwoods #fog #hoahoavibes
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
wiredrabbit.bsky.social
Up in the Redwoods
#BigBasin #Redwoods #Trees
Looking up in a redwood grove in Big Basin park, CA.
January 6, 2026 at 1:46 AM
blueblondie48.bsky.social
If Trump gets anywhere near our precious redwoods and our Giant Ladies, it’s on, you motherfucker!

Is he going to cut our forests down to drill for oil or to just be a asshole or is it both?

Stop this now, dammit!
Bigbasin Redwoods GIF
ALT: Bigbasin Redwoods GIF
media.tenor.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
thatsmypark.bsky.social
When parking fills in the park, the shuttle brings visitors from overflow parking at Saddle Mountain to the main day-use area. Learn more: www.thatsmypark.org/bigbasin.
Parking fees help Friends support parks.
Big Basin Redwoods State Park - ThatsMyPark
Big Basin Redwoods State Park is the oldest state park in California. The majority of the park burned in the 2020 CZU Fire, destroying all historic structures, park infrastructure and severely damagin...
www.thatsmypark.org
July 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
thatsmypark.bsky.social
Once the main lot is parked out, traffic will be directed to the Saddle Mountain overflow lot, where a free, ADA-accessible shuttle will pick you up. 🚗 The shuttle runs Saturdays, Sundays & holiday weekends.
Learn how to navigate your next Big Basin adventure at: www.thatsmypark.org/bigbasin
www.thatsmypark.org
June 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM