Four Palms Size:Gallery Arthur caught a low-cloud morning

Arthur caught a low-cloud morning when the ridges break above the deck and the alpine tundra reads bare and brown against the sky

Morning fog inversions on California's Central Coast happen when cold marine air settles into the valleys and the ridges stay clear above it

Ryan shoots one of them stripped to shape: side-lit crest

Its southwest coast runs miles of pale beach from Agios Prokopios south through Plaka to Mikri Vigla

dropping a thousand feet

Four Palms Size:Gallery Arthur caught a low-cloud morningFour Mexican fan palms in silhouette against an L. A. sunset the species that lines the boardwalks of most of the coast, planted in long rows by the city in the early twentieth century. Almost none of California's palms are actually native to California. Alex frames four trunks against a sky going through peach, lavender, and rose, the lower fronds in the foreground reading nearly black.