The North Coast of California in Monochrome
I’m currently featuring five topically organized galleries of monochrome images. Click on a link under “Monochrome Galleries” in the side bar or on one of the links below to enter a gallery.
- The Beaches & Bluffs gallery presents images of ever-eroding sandstone bluffs above our largely pocket-sized beaches. In addition to sometimes large blocks of sandstone, those beaches accumulate considerable driftwood during the winter storm season.
- Monterey Cypress trees, while native to the Central Coast of California, thrive in our coastal environment. Many were planted in hedgerows in the 1920s to act as wind-breaks for the sheep ranches that dominated the coast then. They have become an iconic element of our landscape, shaped by the seemingly ever-present winds from the northwest.
- Stornetta Lands, a large coastal tract north of Arena Cove in Mendocino County, were added to the California Coastal National Monument during the Obama administration. Much of the land in this tract came from the Stornetta dairy ranch and is now permanently protected from development. These lands are a fine place to hike, to take in the rugged scene, and to watch migrating Pacific Grey Whales December to May.
- Water’s Edge focuses on the ever-changing inter-tidal zone, that margin of the Pacific Ocean between low and high tides. An ever interesting place to explore and photograph.
- Winter Clouds contains graphic images of our skies before and after the many winter storms that bring most of our annual rainfall on the North Coast.
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