Trying to fit big trees into a photograph

My 11-year old daughter and I are on vacation in the San Francisco area. Today we visited Muir Woods, an enchanted grove of coastal redwood trees less than an hour north of San Francisco. Thank you, Teddy Roosevelt, for saving this natural treasure. Today, I worked hard to try to capture the immensity of these trees in a photo. Here's the best I could do:

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Lantern Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden

What you will see below are a series of four photos I took tonight at the Chinese Lantern Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden. This was a stunning display of dozens of larger than life creations of silk, steel and other materials, that magically transformed the grounds of the MBG.

In the above photo, the foreground is a dragon made of thousands of porcelain plates, cups and other utensils. In the background is the Climatron (a longtime fixture at the Garden containing tropical plants). The festival will run through August 19. Three additional photos follow.

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