National Geographic Redwood Portrait by Michael Nichols

<p>Hi, I fell in love with this photo and I would really love to get a large image of it from somewhere.<br>

<img src="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/10/redwoods/img/redwood-portrait.jpg" alt="" width="200" /><br>

This is something I would like to print myself on a wallpaper type paper, to fill a wall in my living room. It would look fantastic, but I can't seem to find any place that would offer this for sale, even for a non commercial purpose.<br>

I'm located in Europe and I'm thinking of ordering the October 2009 magazine from ebay to try and scan the image for myself. I'm still waiting for a reply from National Geographic...<br>

Maybe someone here has this scanned or a larger version on their computer?<br>

I will be grateful for any help :)</p>

<p>Truly wonderful Photograph! Neat idea for wall paper, but scanning and repurposing the image is an infringement on the photographs copyrights.</p>

<p>It is probably owned by National Geographic and or the photographer. If they release a high res version into the wild it might be on a torrent in a day. I am not sure why NG would want to sell the image to an unknown; too much risk an no reward. Why not ask them if they can print a poster of it?</p>

<p>The same thing goes with wedding stuff; folks want a high res image "for their personal usage"; but it often means they want to do the printing themselves; and not pay the photographer beans.</p>

<p>nat geo sells their images as prints online, dirt cheap for the real thing, not stolen. also, it's not a large format image as this forum pertains to.</p>

<p>I'm not looking for a regular print, so buying it from their site isn't much of an option.<br>

As for the risk for NG, I never thought of it that way. I was assuming that using it for non-commercial purposes would be a different matter. I guess you may be right.</p>

<p>National Geographic itself is offering a 24x73.6" (about 61x187cm) print for $200. I doubt if you could create a better print yourself, especially at that price.<br>

I'd give you a direct link, but this irritating forum won't allow me to do that. So, just go to the National Geo site, hit on buy prints, and look in the past issues for April 2010.<br>

Cheers,<br />donw</p>

<p>I'm going to try one more time to insert a link to the NatGeo page with the relevant information.<br>

http://gallery.pictopia.com/natgeo/photo/8389209/<br>

Hah. It seems to work now. The last time, I got an error message, and it forced me to use the back button to try to "fix" the content of the message. Unfortunately, that bounced me back to the annoying animated ad. I ended up sitting through that about seven times. Argh! I finally resolved things by hitting the "edit html content" button (or whatever it was), and stripped out everything I could apart from the paragraph marks. That seemed to do it<br>

So, let's see if this one goes through...</p>

<p>yeah, I saw that a while ago, but it's not really what I'm looking for. I'd like this on wallpaper and blown up even bigger. Just for home use :)</p>

<p>You can always address N.G. your wishes directly or contact the photographer directly about that wallpaper.<br /> Other option is that you take a trip to California :-) Than find a nice lab to print it.</p>

<p>That is a beautiful picture. Is that picture made up of like a lot of smaller pictures? Does anyone know the camera used to take it?</p>

<p>No, but I can think that my 6x24cm Tomiyama could be very usefull here or some 6x17, 6x12 of other make like Fotoman or Goersi. Even LF with an extreme WA lens would do it and just corp the image. Other obtions are digital stiching.</p>

<p>there's a video here, explaining how it was done <a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=nichols-redwoods-gatefold&catID=1">http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player#/?titleID=nichols-redwoods-gatefold&catID=1<br /></a></p>

 

<p>It's amasing realy but N.G has the money. Just for an illustration what an 6x24 can do looked this pic. I were standing as close as 3m or even closer from this tree. And it was tall. Not a redwood but a tall tree. :-)</p><div></div>

<p>I forgot to say that this is not the entire negativ it's around 6x20 cm which shows in this image, missing is 2cm from the buttom and the top. </p>

<p>If Iwona wants a wallpaper size image, maybe contact Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. Last time I was in that city, I was also on the campus, and someone said that a huge size image or poster was going to be hung at the campus.<br>

Maybe the administration office still has information on the source.<br>

Cheers ~ M. D. Vaden of Oregon</p><div></div>