The world’s second-largest known tree, a 3,200-year-old giant sequoia called “The President,” which rises 247 feet high and has a trunk diameter of twenty-seven(!) feet was, for the first time, photographed in its totality in December of 2012. The end result was breathtaking. Shooting this natural behemoth took 32 days and the piecing together of 126 separate photos! There’s a little bit of unintentional distortion (notice the the man in the tree is much larger than the man on the ground), but that’s to be expected given the enormity of The President, as well as the winter conditions in Sequoia National Park when photographer Mark “Nick” Nichols captured the photo. Take a look.