a monument overlooking Lake Oroville...
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Showing posts with label oroville. Show all posts
the bridge to nowhere...
Saw this bridge from a distance while I was taking photos near the Oroville Dam. Sped around to get to it by sunset. Barely made it and then had to walk across the bridge to get the sun behind me (you could only park on one side). Looking at this angle, I love how the bridge just disappears into the hill. After all of that planning, I got in a hurry and slightly overexposed the image (because I left the exposure at neutral). Still a keeper, but sure wish I would have captured more of the blue sky and the golden hills...
living the life...
Caught this moment as the fisherman was coming in from a day on Lake Oroville. After briefly talking with him you could tell that he was "living the life" that he always wanted in retirement. I was down at the lake level on the boat ramp and it felt like you were at the bottom of a deep canyon. The embankment was a rich golden brown and the evening sun just seemed to amplify the colors...
receding water line...
On my way back from Chico, CA to Sacramento, we decided to take a diversion and stop by the Oroville Dam. It is the tallest dam in the US (and until Wednesday, I had never even heard of it). Even more unique, for the photos, is that the water level has receded almost 200 ft below the peak. This provided me an opportunity to get an image like this because of all the visible brown embankments that was void of foilage...
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