Photographing one of the world's tallest trees in Tasmania's Styx Valley

Eucalyptus regnans in the Styx Valley

It took 67 days, 12,000 images

and a climb to stomach-churning heights,

but photographer Steven Pearce finally got the image

he was after of the world's tallest flowering plant,

Tasmania's eucalyptus regnans.

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