Sunset on the Flat
by Mike Lee
Title
Sunset on the Flat
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
A late September sunset on Hog Flat Reservoir in Lassen County, California, USA.
The newly formed Susan River Irrigation district formed the reservoir in the late 19th century when levees were built around a large meadow to capture spring runoff.
(Source Tim Purdy, Lassen County Historian www.tipurdy.org)
In wetter years of the past this area would have still be under a few feet of water. However, recent years of draught and increased access to the water by a large local ranch has meant that both Hog Flat and its sister Reservoir, McCoy Flat just to the west, are typically dry by the late summer. Indeed, I'd hiked more than half a mile out in to the “lake” to the point where I captured this image.
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September 25th, 2020
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Comments (85)
Christopher James 1 Hour Ago
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Bob Lentz 21 Hours Ago
Congratulations! on this unique image’s being Featured in “Dramatic Landscape Seascape and Cityscape Photographs” group. The artist is invited to add the image to the group’s current “2024 Feature Archive” Discussion topic.
Morris Finkelstein
Revisiting this great landscape with beautiful light and shadows, perspective, colors, and composition!