The Station Fire - One Year Later
Roughly one year ago a huge fire tore through Southern California burning over 160,000 acres of forestland. When it first started, I took photos of the Station Fire blazing through our local mountains.
A few weeks ago, and almost exactly a year after the Station Fire was extinguished, Penelope and I went for a drive up Angeles Crest Highway. The route we usually take, through Pasadena/La Cañada is still closed, but we were able to access the forest going in the back way.
The bad news is, much of the forest has been burnt to a crisp. The good news is that there is life everywhere and the forest will return eventually. Here are a few photos I shot of the forest coming back to life:
#### Life Coming Back
#### Dried Yucca And Clouds on Angeles Crest Highway
#### Burnt Bushes
#### The Backroad Up To Angeles Crest
#### The Sun Above A Charred, But Greening Landscape
The photos above were created with a Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens, 3x +2/-2/0 EV bracketed RAW exposures, combined with Photomatix 4.0