Michael Stringer, In Sentinel's Shadows (June theme: Australian Landscape)

Walking through the Redwood Forest in The Great Otway National Park, Victoria, you can't help but feeling you're caught in a pre-historic era, passing through an almost surreal and mythical landscape of lush rainforest greenery and streams - the perimeter flanked by giant Californian Redwood trees, standing as if they were sentinel's guarding the delicate foliage below.

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