California, Seen Through the Lens of George Rose
George Rose / Getty Yosemite Valley, including Half Dome, Clouds Rest, Bridalveil Fall, and El Capitan, viewed from Tunnel View after a brief rainstorm cleared on March 27, 2025, in Yosemite National Park, California George Rose / Getty Heavy rains arrived in Santa Barbara County wine country, filling the creeks and streams and turning the hillsides a vivid green as viewed on January 20, 2023, near Santa Ynez, California. Following the notoriety from the Academy Award–winning film Sideways, this farming region north of Santa Barbara has become a popular wine-country stop for global and domestic tourists traveling between San Francisco and Los Angeles.George Rose / GettyA farmworker rides a horse through the neighborhood backstreets in Los Alamos, California, on January 30, 2016.George Rose / GettyThe downtown high-rises are viewed at sunrise from the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in the Baldwin Hills Mountains on February 7, 2022, in Los Angeles, California.George Rose / GettyA group of surfers catches the same wave in this photo taken from the pier in Pismo Beach, California, on August 21, 2015.George Rose / GettyPinot noir vineyards in the famed Sta. Rita Hills AVA (American Viticultural Area) turn a vivid red, orange, and yellow, signaling the end of the grape harvest and approach of winter, as viewed on November 26, 2023, near Buellton, California.George Rose / GettyDiscovery Bay, a waterfront community of 15,000 people built on a network of man-made dikes and surrounded by fresh water, is viewed from the air on May 22, 2023, over Discovery Bay, California.George Rose / GettyA woman photographs the Golden Gate Bridge and approaching bank of heavy fog on February 13, 2014, in San Francisco, California.George Rose / GettyVisitors to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park take in Galleta Meadows, a sculpture garden by the artist and welder Ricardo Breceda, on March 6, 2019, in Borrego Springs, California.George Rose / GettyEarly-morning light shines on Emerald Bay in Sou