This image was photographed in the Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park in northern California early one morning in June of 2006.  I confess that I had long hoped to find an area with such large ferns and Redwoods.  There had been intermittent rain and mist that morning which worked to produce a lush wet appearance throughout this composition.  Conditions were cool and moist and all the limbs and branches seemed to be covered with the green moss-like growth so often seen in the rain forests found in this region.  The fallen redwood in the center seemed to be surrounded by ferns as if they were attending a wake.  I captured this image using the Mamiya RZ67 with the 50mm ULD lens tripod mounted and mirror-up on Kodak Portra 400 VC negative film.