Among Giants
Among Giants is what it feels like to stand in the company of something ancient and realise that being small within it is not a diminishment but rather a position you belong to.
We came around a bend in the track and these eucalypts simply flooded into view. Tall, straight, and at first apparently identical. Then, as I moved closer, the differences emerged. Every trunk carries its own bark patterns, its own stripping, its own history written in the variations between lighter and darker tones. Each one occupies its own space without intruding on its neighbour. Each one grows its own way toward the light, with branches so minimal they seem to understand they are not competing for what the tree beside them needs.
This was one of the first images in the walk where I felt my confidence return, where I felt I had settled into my eye and my surroundings and knew what I was doing. I deliberately filled the entire frame with the trunks, cutting off the tops and bottoms, making the image a fragment of something too large to contain. Because that is what it was: one small portion of a forest too enormous to be fully held in any frame.
Among Giants is for the person who sometimes confuses being part of something larger than themselves with being less than they are. You are not diminished by the company of giants. You are among them. And that is exactly where you are supposed to be.
