A Commanding View

A dramatically cloudy day near the confluence of Cottonwood Creek and the Sacramento River in northern California. Humans are natural, but some really like to lord it over the landscape.

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Sony a7, 24-105mm @ 71mm, f/16, 1/60s

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Bonnie, this captures the human tendency to “lord it over the landscape as well as ‘display’ to our fellow humans” very well. The white (birch?) trees in the center stand out nicely. The cloudy sky looks good and lets the details in the cliff show well.

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A cool scene with the trees in the foreground, Bonnie. The mansion on the ridge is a familiar sight. I’ll be passing some similar ones in a few hours; perched on a bluff that is eroding away and will eventually dump them into Puget Sound.

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I never realized the Sac was this photogenic. Those cottonwoods look like great subjects for the winter.

Thanks, @Mark_Seaver, @Dennis_Plank, and @Igor_Doncov.