Beautiful Harry, can almost feel the breeze pushing the water around:-)

Fantastic work on another lovely collage Harry

Beautiful area, especially seen in zoom. I'm perplexed by the lack of birds...it seems like it would be an ideal place for them to gather. Maybe it's a prime spot for birds during migration.

morningglory: not as perplexed as I was when I went there expecting to find wildlife and encountered next to nothing in that regard.

wow you right about wild life not been there. that surreal. but the shots is sharp and clear and good pof

Nice shot in #2 with the bridge and I like the ripples on the water from the wing. A wonderful collage!

I often wonder what this looked like before white man came along to ruin it. As a kid, I remember lots of oil well around here. There are a few left, but they're sure ugly.

I too wonder about the absence of birds.

Fantastic views. Another beautiful and interesting series of excellent shots. Somehow the landscape reminds me of Spain.

lovely collage

Great work again, Harry; I too remember the oil wells, there were tons of them around when I was younger. As far as birds, maybe it was their siesta time? Bet it gets busier at sunrise and sunset. I see the same phenomenon at my local parks, often not much at all happening midday, and then if I go late afternoon it's teeming with life.

I'm with Rosy on the nice fresh breeze you'd get but boy! Is it kinda barren! No wonder there is nothing to 'shoot' there lol I notice that there are actually trees and Vegetation over by those houses on shot two! More chance of wildlife there I think... Lets hope for the future hey Harry.. And, thanks mightily for the comments and the Fave.. Rob

fascinating to read the comments re 'why no birds,' etc. And Rob seems to think that wildlife will come only in the future...I know nothing of this, but the sheer appearance of the place feels foreboding to me; and while that probably has little to do with the lack of animals, visually it feels like it would scare away anything. At least to me... More brave shots, Harry, because you tackled some of the most difficult terrains to photograph. Mountains may be more difficult to traverse, but these vistas feel more forbidding, visually. (How can you go wrong with a mountain? I mean, anywhere you point your lens, you'll get a decent shot. But here...you have to really commune with the lay of the land...) As in your shots of decayed fences and cracked walls, you have, here, the same face-on, flush-forward approach to seeing: You let it all speak without interference or false-beautification, which makes it beautiful to me. The algae in #3 is paralleled by that white 'toilet paper-y' stuff on the shore, which we see in the last two shots as well. I assume that's either dead growth, or maybe from a higher waterline that's now receded. (It looks like water detritus.) Wonderful detail, whatever it is. And the island in #4 is paralleled by the low land-mass in #5---ie, the green stuff in the middle of the water. You show a Midwesterner's eye in these shots, actually, because you understand the language of low-lines and strata. I think a lot of photographers would go for closeups, because the broader shots seem so bleak; yet to me your shots are poetry. And your opening 2 shots give us more generous water to 'freshen' us before the land takes over. Also, the Pacific adds something special: Because, without knowing that's the Pacific, this seems almost as if it could be in the middle of nowhere. It's hard to believe this is right on the biggest ocean on earth. A wonderful capture of a most difficult terrain. More kudos, Harry!

Incredibly Fantastic,

excellent series !!!