23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest The American Experience
Lost goat (Californnia Delta)

The California Delta, where the deltas of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers converge near San Francisco Bay, is a remarkably bucolic corner of the state around an hour from some of the state's busiest cities. For me, this sign encapsulated the cutural differences between the Delta and nearby San Francisco.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2024
Date Uploaded: 12.2025
Photo Location: Walnut Grove, California, United States of America
Camera: LEICA M10
Copyright: © Virginia Hines