The Fragile Beauty of Lake Tahoe

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Jun 11th 2008 at 6:02PM

Lake Tahoe, the 22-mile long natural wonder in the Sierra Nevada mountains that's a renowned vacation spot - and site of this amazing Estate of the Day, among others - is the subject of a beautiful new book by photographer Thomas Bachand. Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty (Chronicle Books, $35), features a decade's worth of Bachand's images presenting "a timeless vocabulary of water, rock and sky," as well as "the transition that the lake and its surroundings are undergoing due to tourism and development." Pictured above is a sunset storm at Sugar Pine Point State Park. A must-have for anyone "enchanted by Tahoe's beauty, engaged by its history, and concerned for its welfare," the book goes on sale in a couple of weeks but you can pre-order it on Amazon now.

Tags: California, Lake Tahoe, Lakes, LakeTahoe, Nevada, Sierra Nevada, SierraNevada, State Parks, StateParks, Thomas Bachand, ThomasBachand

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Mike Becker Jun 11th 2008 10:01PM

Jared,
Incredible photograph ( i.e Sunset Storm Sugar Pine Point
State Park).
Can you are someone provide the direct link to the high res
version of that photo? I'd love to make it my
screen saver. Absolutely beautiful and well chose, Jared.
Thanks!
Mike Becker