Alva B. Richmond: So. California Views: A Photographic Portfolio, 1916
Santa Ynez Canyon, 1916
Alva B. Richmond: So. California Views: A Photographic Portfolio, 1916
Santa Ynez Canyon, 1916
"There is something very restful in one of these quiet spots, surrounded by the grandeur of the mountains, the deep quiet of the day, the music of the running stream as it eddies around the rocks and drops with gentle murmurings into the depth of the quiet pool before you.
"The crushed bracken beneath you lends an aromatic odor to the atmosphere. The sense of solitude engendered by the vastness of the mountains, settles on one like the veriest balm of peace.
"It is a place where one can sit and drink in the limitless peace and bask in the air and sunlight, unpolluted by any sound foreign to the symphony of the little noises that nature offers to the audience that seeks her out and where man has never tried to tutor her to his own petty ideas of harmony and beauty." -A.B. Richmond