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Salt marsh, winter dawn        Images © Mark A. Chappell

San Francisco Bay is highly developed with a population in the millions, but one can find a surprising amount of nature if you know where to look.   These pictures were taken before sunrise on a very cold* winter morning in a salt marsh at the border of Palo Alto and Mountain View.

*cold for coastal California, that is....

  • Canon 1D Mk II, 24-105 IS lens (2006)