This park has two groves of old growth coastal redwood trees, hundreds of years old and enormous in scale. I made my most expressive redwood forest landscape photograph of a tree that has fallen and a fern rising from a pool of light next to it. It is not the subject itself that moved me to make this image. It the way light simultaneously abstracts and reveals it. The fallen tree creates a dark diagonal, deep within the shadows. It has been left to gradually decompose, nourishing the soil around it so that new growth such as this lone fern can flourish. One leaf of the fern catches the light, as if in salute the fallen giant behind it. The gradations of light and shadow in this image trace the process of life itself.