Riomaggiore summer Almost none of California's palms

Almost none of California's palms are native — the rows lining the Pacific coast were planted by Los Angeles in the early twentieth century

Luis shoots from the water with the lens just above the surface

looking through the curl as it pitches

a former lakebed laid down by glacial damming and now drained by the Yellowstone River

the days off-water are slow ones

Riomaggiore summer Almost none of California's palmsRiomaggiore is the southernmost of the five Cinque Terre villages terracotta houses stacked up a steep ravine to the Ligurian coast, joined by a footpath above the sea. The villages have been there since around the 12th century; cars still can't reach the centers, only trains and boats. Bree shoots in the late light, the houses catching the last of it, the sea behind them already dark.