美国国家公共电台 NPR From Moonscape To Lush: Photographs Capture California Drought's Story

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

A photographer is capturing California's recovery from drought.

JUSTIN SULLIVAN: My editors had an idea of, like, what about doing before and afters?

INSKEEP: Justin Sullivan works for Getty Images, and his before photos were from 2014. Sullivan shot them from a helicopter above what he calls dried-out moonscapes.

SULLIVAN: Just rolling hills of brown and the recessed¹ water in reservoirs that reveals banks that are, you know, 50, 60, 100 feet tall, that they look like little mini mountains and then a river just running through them now instead of a lake.

INSKEEP: Sullivan hiked on what had once been lake beds.

DAVID GREENE, HOST:

So that was before. The drought was so bad that Sullivan had to wait years for the after. But now many of those lakes are back.

SULLIVAN: It was sort of mind-blowing. It's a completely different look that's just like a velvety² green, lush landscape now.

INSKEEP: And a warning sign set against a yellow-brown background, a sign that read, fire danger high, now sits amid green grass and reads, fire danger low.

SULLIVAN: One of the pictures I shot was of two white horses in this field that's just dead grass. It looks like a vintage photo. When I went to go try to recreate that picture, I went to the same exact spot. And the horses were there again. They weren't the same white horses. They were brown horses now. So sometimes they just work out perfectly³.

INSKEEP: Justin Sullivan of Getty Images. And you can see his photos at npr.org.

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