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January – March
www.deltalivingmagazine.com
By Charleen Earley
F
amiliar with giving shots,
not taking them, retired
Registered Nurse Morgan Wy-
eth, a Utah native, came from
the Bay Area to retire at Trilogy
in Rio Vista with her partner
Terri Wyeth in 2004. It’s where
she calls home and shoots most
of her photographs – instead of
patients with needles.
In her rst 116-page, co ee
table book called “In and Around
the Delta, A Photographic Jour-
ney,” Morgan says she honed her
photography skills on her own.
“I am a self-taught photog-
rapher. Before I became a nurse,
I was an art major in college,
which taught me composition,
depth of eld and light aspects,”
says Morgan.
She loves her new home, the
Delta.
“I was in awe when I moved
to the Delta. It was something
I'd never really looked closely
at. During my research, I found
so many fascinating facts. In its
1,000 miles of waterways, there
are 52 islands – that’s how spe-
cial the Delta is,” says Morgan.“I
found the region to elicit a mul-
titude of emotions and moods
and tried to recreate these in my
photographs.”
The photographs in her book
will do the same for readers --
elicit a multitude of emotions,
as she covers a gamut of those
1,000 miles of estuary, from
bridges and birds to dredgers
and ferries.
Her photography spans such
towns as Lodi, Isleton, Rio Vista
Delta Book Highlight
Morgan captures the
Delta through her lens
Morgan Wyeth
Wind sur ng is popular along the Sacramento River, San Joaquin and Suisun Bays.