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Bay Area, California – May 2013 – Images by Art Wolfe

Last week I was in the Bay Area doing a Google Talk with Nik. My talk will be posted within the next couple weeks.

Later I was walking in a San Francisco neighborhood and saw two red macaws flying out over the city and I followed them down to this local park. There I met the man who had raised them and allows them to free fly out over the skyline. While in the park several people showed up making soap bubbles with wands and rope to the delight of onlookers- and me. Just something fun about bubbles! Finally, what’s a trip to SF without crossing the Golden Gate Bridge for some photos from the famous Battery Spencer vista point.

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PRIDE PARADESan Francisco 2011

San Fransisco Pride Parade Slideshow from Art Wolfe on Vimeo.

The mood of a parade and festival make for an excellent opportunity to get fun portraits, great shots of children, and even some wonderful dog photos.

A slideshow from the Pride festival in San Fransisco, California in June of 2011, with Art’s thoughts on the experience.

http://vimeo.com/25777412

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On Location – Northern California

I rarely do assignments, but recently I traveled to California to do a shoot for the award-winning winery Sequoia Grove .  It is a wonderful winery in Napa which has a partnership with the Sequoia Parks Foundation to protect habitat for the magnificent trees.

Following the commercial shoot in Napa, Jay Goodrich & I headed to the ghost town of Bodie, a State Historic Park north of Yosemite National Park. An old gold-mining town that was abandoned by its last residents over 50 years ago, it offers terrific photographic opportunities of “arrested decay.”

The open road of the Eastern Sierra beckoned after a quick stop in  Yosemite, and we caught Owens Lake at sunset.  Most of the water from the Owens River has long since been diverted to the Los Angeles Aqueduct, but some flow has now been restored to the lake.  At dusk when the shallow, alkaline waters are still, the reflections of landforms and the endless high plains sky are superlative.

Back in the Bay Area we rented a small plane and flew over the San Francisco Bay.  Over 90% of the Bay’s marshlands have been lost, but now some areas are slowly being restored for wildlife habitat.  From the sky, the marshes offer amazing array of abstract geometric patterns and colors.

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