Trees and Brush, Levee. Cosumnes River Wildlife Preserve, California. January 23, 2011. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Weak sunlight breaks through Central Valley tule fog to illuminate trees and brush growing on a levee near the Cosumnes River.
This morning started out with extremely dense Central Valley tule fog – at first so thick that I more or less gave up photographing. But eventually, as usually happens, the upper layers of the fog began to thin, and some light began to filter down through the fog. By late in the morning the fog was thinning enough that very pale sunlight began to show through and softly light the dense vegetation on this levee along the edges of the Cosumnes River. This is an incredibly rich environment in the winter, especially with all of the water from winter rains and the nearby river, and the vegetation grows very thick here.
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Love! Something about the colors, and the contrast of the water w the brush & trees. This’ll sound goofy, but it’s like eating something that has something crunchy and something smooth in it and the contrast is really yummy.
Okay … maybe I’m watching Top Chef at the moment.
Actually, I do know what you are saying – I think I need to make a large print of this one, too.