- This grove is really extraordinary.

Something about being in the trees that tells me to like... Do less.

Go slow.

[gentle contemplative music] You know, maybe it just gets me out of myself, I don't know.

[camera shutter clicking] [gentle compemplative music] Trees have been the focus of my work for about 25 years.

Four or five years ago, I was taking photographs of old-growth redwoods, and I was physically sort of emotionally blown away, and I needed to understand what that was about.

The scale and the grandeur take us out of the daily stress of our lives.

[gentle contemplative music] The trees give us perspective.

I love sharing the experience and my enthusiasm and my kind of love of the trees.

And it's also complicated because there is nothing like this.

This experience of me standing here in this air and this incredible place, it can't be reproduced.

[birds chirping] So... What do I do?

[chuckles] I've made prints that are 10, 12 feet across and equally high, in which we see a portion of the tree, but in its true scale.

I bring that sculptural sense into the photographs, brings our physicality into it.

I'm looking to create that kind of visceral connection.

[gentle contemplative music] My latest ambition is to photograph and print an entire coast redwood tree life-size, so that's 320 feet or so, and to... [camera shutter clicking] [city traffic whooshing] bring it into the urban environment.

I think it can be really, really powerful.

[feet thumping lightly] [gentle contemplative music]