Cal Fire’s fleet of tankers then drops fire retardant onto the ... The scooper planes refill by descending to calm waters and skimming the water’s surface to load their tanks.

That pattern is called a glitter path." "The width of the glitter path is telling us how rough the water is. Where its narrow the waters calm and where it gets wider the waters a bit rougher." ...

My Nikon D5100, ISO 100, f/8, 1/125 sec.” Critique: “Photographing calmer water can be tougher than it looks. A calm body of water splits a picture in half, creating a lovely mirror image ...