John & Anne Wiley

2019/05/26

Scene From Above

Here are a few more aerial views, starting with the geometry of field and stream in the CA Salinas Valley.

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5074 Nature & Nurture

The last pic I ever snapped from Tripp was of the Laguna Blanca area of Hope Ranch on a smoky and hazy day, that for me evokes the mist of memory.

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5187 Era’s End

As weather finally began to hint at drought relief, from a safe distance we enjoyed the look of clouds beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains.

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8976 Beyond the Divide

It’s nice having the long zoom lens of the Sony RX-10m4 for pix like these.

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9421 Cachuma & Clouds

A few days later we enjoyed this somehow rakish view of Lake Cachuma.

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9004 Angles & Reflections

Though it was from a Cachuma dam release to replenish ground water in the Santa Ynez Valley, it was nice to see a thin strip of green amid bone dry scrub.

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9495 Thirsty Land

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