Morro Bay Harbor and Morro Rock Canvas Print

Morro Bay Harbor, and the looming Morro Rock that dominates it, on California's Central Coast.

Morro Rock -- a 581-foot (177 m) volcanic plug -- was named in 1542 by Portuguese navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who explored the Pacific Coast for Spain. Cabrillo called the rock El Moro because, he wrote, it resembled the head of a Moor, the people from North Africa known for the turbans they wore. However, the Spanish word "morro" ("pebble") is also consistent with the shape of the rock, and so the term morro is frequently used wherever such a distinctive rock-like mountain is found within the Spanish-speaking world.

Carol M. Highsmith Influenced by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. [1] Photography Career “Is Carol Highsmith the most...