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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 #### Life Coming Back

Dried Yucca And Clouds on Angeles Crest Highway #### Dried Yucca And Clouds on Angeles Crest Highway

Burnt Bushes #### Burnt Bushes

The Backroad Up To Angeles Crest #### The Backroad Up To Angeles Crest

The Sun Above A Charred, But Greening Landscape #### 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

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Monday, November 8th, 2010 at 10:55:23 AM

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