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The shallower parts of the wetland lake is dominated by Spiraea douglasii, commonly known as hardhack. Hardhack needs a very moist ground, much of the year it's standing in water, in the summer it's some of degree of mud.
Luminance HDR 2.3.1 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
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Alpha: 0.33
Beta: 0.86
Color Saturation: 1.25
Noise Reduction: 0
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PreGamma: 1
This was taken about 22 hours after a "fireball" over the San Francisco Bay Area was reported on television newscasts. Since this white trail stayed white much longer than the normal sunset clouds -- including airplane and rocket contrails -- could it possibly be residual smoke from a meteor burning upon entry into our atmosphere?
Since I was cooking dinner at the time, I didn't watch for a normal progression to darkness.