Salinas River

This is a panorama I shot and constructed with 4 separate images in Photoshop CS5. It is a shot panning the Salinas River with its modern path in front of the Moss Landing Marine Lab into the Pacific Ocean (on the left). This river was reconstructed back in the late 1800s to create a ship harbor and fill-in a highly diverse estuary for development. Reclamation of the land to native plants along with restrictions on building for the last 25 years has kept this area alive. In fact, some would say revitalized. It looks out over the Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean, one of the most bio-diverse marine environments in the World. All this happening within a hundred yards from this spot:

Graduate school, marine lab & sanctuary, U.S. Navy marine animal research center, Duke Energy steam power plant, Yacht harbor with sardine and fish processing plants, over 100 luxury boats, and many over 100' research and ocean going vessels.

The Moss Landing Marine Labs along with the Elkhorn Slough Estuary and other environmentalists, study and fight to protect this vital area. I shot this standing near the library of the Moss Landing Marine Lab which provides instruction and science rigor to over 100 graduate students each year.

This is also a backblip that I wanted to share and was too busy to post at the time.