Photographing the 'world’s largest tree’

Lance Oditt/Friends of Pando
(Image credit: Lance Oditt/Friends of Pando)
Meet the pro: Lance Oditt

Lance Oditt/Friends of Pando

(Image credit: Lance Oditt/Friends of Pando)

Lance Oditt runs a fine art and documentary studio based in Seattle, Washington. He takes photographs to stir a deeper awareness for the possibilities of the natural world and a sense of stewardship towards it.

www.studio4760north.com

High in the Fish Lake Basin of Central Utah stands Pando, the world’s largest tree; an aspen-clone that spreads over 47 hectares of the Fishlake National Forest. Born of a single seed laid down some time in the last 12,000 years, Pando, whose name means ‘I spread’, wasn’t discovered until 1976. 

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Lauren Scott
Freelance contributor/former Managing Editor

Lauren is a writer, reviewer, and photographer with ten years of experience in the camera industry. She's the former Managing Editor of Digital Camera World, and previously served as Editor of Digital Photographer magazine, Technique editor for PhotoPlus: The Canon Magazine, and Deputy Editor of our sister publication, Digital Camera Magazine. An experienced journalist and freelance photographer, Lauren also has bylines at Tech Radar, Space.com, Canon Europe, PCGamesN, T3, Stuff, and British Airways' in-flight magazine (among others). When she's not testing gear for DCW, she's probably in the kitchen testing yet another new curry recipe or walking in the Cotswolds with her Flat-coated Retriever.