>The Whittier fire in Santa Ynez, CA burned over 18,000 acres of land, consisting mainly of old growth oak trees and other drought-stressed underbrush. What we were visually taken with initially were the white ash outlines of the old tree forms on the ground where the trunks and branches had been incinerated. They took on the impression of body outlines at a crime scene, with the landscape having the hush of a graveyard. They fascinated us so much we went back many times over a few weeks and eventually took a high resolution drone to get an aerial perspective. The outlines were just too large to photograph from the ground.
