Stunning Photos of California’s Alternative-Energy Fields
A photographer captures their stark beauty. PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMEY STILLINGS; TEXT BY MARK MURRMANN When we first discussed working on a story about how California leads the pack on large-scale alternative energy projects, photographer Jamey Stillings immediately came to mind. Stillings began photographing the Ivanpah Solar project in October 2010, with a flyover of the the Mojave Desert. He photographed the land that would be transformed into the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the largest solar plant in the world. Construction on the Ivanpah solar project ended in 2014, the same year Stillings published his work—more than three years of aerial … Continue reading Stunning Photos of California’s Alternative-Energy Fields