Wine from the Historic Beltane Ranch winery was lost in storage as it overheated. Days later, the burned bottles were pulled out onto the scarred landscape of the oak woodland. Near Kenwood, California

Flying over Rincon Ridge Drive in Santa Rosa, California, I made this image of the devastation to the community as the Tub's fire swept onto this plateau. My pilot was a retired fire chief, very familiar with the region.,

The Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa (Sonoma County) California was devastated by the Tubbs fire on October 9, 2017. This scene shows streets to the north and south of Hopper Avenue.

Sifting through the rubble, this homeowner found her daughter’s copper-plated baby booties and grandmother’s wedding ring. Santa Rosa, California 2017

Valuables collected and placed onto an oil pan recovered from the garage.

Tonka truck toys burned in the Tubbs fire of 2017 lay in an abandoned park near Windsor, California.

Plein Air painter documents the new landscape near Santa Rosa after the Tubbs fire of 2017. Chapparal, oak woodland and vineyards transformed by the fires.

Like a contemporary abstract painting, the shell of an abandoned horse trailer in the Tubbs fire takes on new forms.

a fallen Douglas fir tree frames California Department of Forestry firefighter during Vision Fire in Point Reyes National Seashore (California, 1995)

A melanistic Fallow deer - a species introduced from Europe - enters burned area near the Youth Hostel after the Vision Fire at Point Reyes National Seashore (California, 1995).

View northeast from Limantour Road across coastal scrub and Bisho pine forest as embers are still cooling. Vision Fire, Point Reyes National Seashore, California, 1995.

Regrowth after the Vision Fire - Mount Vision ridge, Point Reyes National Seashore, California.