Kevin Palmer, Their Majestic Existence (ANIMAL & NATURE 2022)

I have walked amongst these surviving ancients many times. Their 200 years or more of growth amazingly having started as such a small fruit. Then a bird or creature helped them start their life in the canopy. Where a host from even further back in time, did itself eventually die and rot away to mulch and leave nothing more than a scaffolded shape as its legacy. And so here I am, in a fleeting moment, capturing images that may some day be all that is left to display their majestic existence.

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