i recently came across an image of methuselah – an ancient 4,800 year old tree, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine to be exact! (and for all you budding botanists out there: pinus longaeva) the idea of living organisms being that old simply overloads my imagination!
however, after wiki-ing & googling for a bit i discovered rachel sussman, a photographer working, in collaboration with biologists, on a project called the oldest living things in the world. here are some of her images…
jomon sugi, japanese cedar (7000 years old)
I have an obsessive passion for trees, especially ancient specimens, these are the most incredible images of living things that just quietly, un-noticed and unmoved exist alongside the frantic tumult of human endevour.
i love them too, these just twist the imagination…how can something be so old, so resilient, seen so much…