Still Life in Baja

by Alan Socolik

Title

Still Life in Baja

Artist

Alan Socolik

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

This photo was taken in Mexico, in the Baja Peninsula. I love the vivid orange and gold, and the footed vase sitting on a window ledge. I think it is an interesting still life, with a southwest or Mexican artwork flair.
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The Baja California peninsula (English: Lower California), is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. Its land mass separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California. The Peninsula extends 1,247 kilometres (775 mi) from Mexicali, Baja California in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur in the south.
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The Baja California peninsula was once a part of the North American Plate, the tectonic plate of which mainland Mexico remains a part. About 12 to 15 million years ago the East Pacific Rise began cutting into the margin of the North American Plate, initiating the separation of the peninsula from it. Spreading within the Gulf of California consists of short oblique rifts or ridge segments connected by long northwest trending transform faults, which together comprise the Gulf of California Rift Zone. The north end of the rift zone is located in the Brawley seismic zone in the Salton Sea basin between the Cerro Prieto Fault and the San Andreas Fault. The Baja California peninsula is now part of the Pacific Plate and is moving with it away from the East Pacific Rise in a north northwestward direction. Along the coast north of Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur is a prominent volcanic activity area.
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The Peninsula is known colloquially as Baja by American and Canadian tourists, and is renowned for its natural beauty and pristine environment. It draws ecotourists who go whale watching for migrating California Gray Whales as well as tourists that arrive to the Baja California Gold Coast and resorts on the southern tip of the Peninsula. Its location between the North Pacific and Gulf of California give it a reputation for good sports fishing.
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much of the text above quoted/paraphrased from wikipedia.org
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FEATURED PHOTO, Fine Art America Loving the Color ORANGE Group, 12/9/2012
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FEATURED PHOTO, FAA Beauty of this World Group, 1/3/2013
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FEATURED PHOTO, FAA Comfortable Art Group, 1/9/2013
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FEATURED PHOTO, FAA All Art Group, 1/10/2013

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October 28th, 2012

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