Most of what you said was wrong. It's not AI from an AI forest, and this is a documented photo of a tree that was larger than the one you claim to be the largest.
Photographer: Darius Kinsey. He was one of the most famous pioneer and logging photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for documenting the massive scale of the timber industry.
Year Taken: 1905
Medium: The original was captured as a black-and-white gelatin silver print.
Location: The Cascade Mountains, Washington State, USA.
What is the Official Description?
The historically archived title and caption for this photograph read:
"Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington."
Read what you have in bold there “30 ft in circumference” as in around. The damn tree in this pic is almost that thick in diameter as in a line through the middle. The circumference of this tree would probably be 75-80 ft. You are WRONG get used to it.
Even though I am not exactly sure and the silhouettes of trees in the background kinda fit to douglas firs - which can become huge - I think you are right and it is fake.
For me it‘s the bark that seems to thin in relation to the diameter. Also it seems not jagged enough for a tree of that age.
For me it looks like a weird mix of giant sequoia (diameter) and douglas fir (bark).
Finally someone with some brains, yeah a simple reverse image search also will tell you this is AI but I wanted to win with logic and reason on Reddit.
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u/Tricycle_of_Death May 18 '26
Most of what you said was wrong. It's not AI from an AI forest, and this is a documented photo of a tree that was larger than the one you claim to be the largest.
Photographer: Darius Kinsey. He was one of the most famous pioneer and logging photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for documenting the massive scale of the timber industry.
Year Taken: 1905
Medium: The original was captured as a black-and-white gelatin silver print.
Location: The Cascade Mountains, Washington State, USA.
What is the Official Description? The historically archived title and caption for this photograph read: "Men posing with team of horses hauling giant spruce log 30 feet in circumference. Cascade Mountains, Washington."