Life and all in Redding California
Strolled about Shasta Dam with a few others yesterday evening, and took these interesting images illuminated by the light of the Harvest Moon.
Stone. Water. Sky. Moon. Life. It’s Really Redding.
2 views of the dam and lake. With a gentle Spring rain filling our lovely lake today, I thought I’d post this view from the overlook, and then from O’Brien. Both seen in each other’s backgrounds.
Precious water from an abundant Earth. Click to slightly enlarge.
Profound views all around us. We need only look. That’s Really Redding.
This was taken yesterday. So achingly beautiful, it brought a tear to my eyes. We live with these natural miracles every day, but it never gets old. Two glowing pink structures in snow and mist above the lake. This photo is my new screen background at 1920 X 1200 pixels, and if you click on it you can get it full size.
Such extraordinary beauty. Well ordinary, actually. It’s Really Redding.
A few images from yesterday evening at nearby Bridge Bay. Another lovely January day in Shasta County.
Beauty is commonplace around here in January. It’s ReallyRedding.
This is one the very earliest color photographs of the dam, a technological feat for the time. The level of detail in the film seems much finer than typical contemporary digital images. The photography was taken in 1942 while Shasta Dam was still very much under construction. This image is from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection, and is available at the link in high resolution. All this work was taking place in the middle of World War II. It’s fascinating to see. That was a lot of concrete! It was an ambitious project. Not the same angle, and not the same level of detail, but it looks like this 68 years later:
