A re-edit of a photo I captured in Yosemite National Park 2010.

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Christmas Lights adorn the Walton Lighthouse in Santa Cruz, California.

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A humingbird in Pacific Grove with the Pacific Ocean in the background.

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This vertical view shows the height of the main dome.

"A large number of mosaics were uncovered in the 1930s by a team from the Byzantine Institute of America led by Thomas Whittemore. The team chose to let a number of simple cross images remain covered by plaster, but uncovered all major mosaics found.

Due to its long history as both a church and a mosque, a particular challenge arises in the restoration process. The Christian iconographic mosaics are being gradually uncovered. However, in order to do so, important, historic Islamic art would have to be destroyed. Restorers have attempted to maintain a balance between both Christian and Islamic cultures. In particular, much controversy rests upon whether the Islamic calligraphy on the dome of the cathedral should be removed, in order to permit the underlying Pantocrator mosaic of Christ as Master of the World, to be exhibited (assuming the mosaic still exists)."
www.theworldwonders.com/medieval-hagia-sophia.html

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You have to climb to the top of the first 650 foot high wall of dunes to see the other 45 square miles on the other side, but the view is well worth the effort!

I used a vertical crop from this image as the chapter header for the Mojave Desert chapter of my 320-page guidebook Photographing California Vol. 2 - South, page 249.

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