Show off Northern California in your next Zoom meeting with these Sacramento Bee photos
By Lezlie Sterling
Zoom meetings and virtual hangouts are the new normal in the era of coronavirus, and if you’re like the rest of us you’re probably experiencing some cabin fever and wanderlust by now.
Well, we’re here to help with beautiful photos of Northern California by The Sacramento Bee photojournalists that you can download and use as a virtual background during your next Zoom meeting. We hope this helps you to stay a little more connected to your community and reminds you of the many adventures that await you once we all get through this together.
Just right click and save these to your desktop.
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Beautiful Northern California landscapes
A hot air balloon flies through the valley in 2007 near Truckee with the Sierra Nevada in the background as smoke from the Moonlight fire in Plumas County lingers in the early morning air. Sacramento Bee file
Residents once used to discard trash on Glass Beach in Fort Bragg and over time the action of the waves has worn smooth the shards of glass that littered the beach. The beach is now covered with smooth colorful pieces of glass. Randall Benton Sacramento Bee file
Lightning cracks through the sky over El Dorado County in the early morning. Randall Benton Sacramento Bee file
Battery Point Lighthouse is a prominent Crescent City landmark. Randall Benton Sacramento Bee file
Tundra swans take flight in a flooded rice field with a view of the Sutter Buttes in the background near Marysville . Lezlie Sterling lsterling@sacbee.com
A view of Ridge Trail at Shell Ridge Open Space in the middle of Walnut Creek. Manny Crisostomo Sacramento Bee file
A snow-covered rock is surrounded by flowing water near the headwaters of the south fork of the American River in Strawberry. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file
Signs of Spring emerge as purple lupines bloom at Rattlesnake Bar in the Folsom Lake Recreation Area Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Lezlie Sterling lsterling@sacbee.com
The sun sets over the ocean and the cypress trees at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Lezlie Sterling Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
Windsurfers and kiteboarders ride the winds and waves of the Pacific Ocean at Waddell Beach in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, about 20 miles north of Santa Cruz Manny Crisostomo Sacramento Bee file
A rainbow, photographed from the top of the Park Tower building in downtown Sacramento, is visible in the Sacramento sky. José Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee file
Fireworks explode in the sky above the Tower Bridge and the Sacramento River as spectators in Old Sacramento and West Sacramento ring in the new year on Dec. 31, 2017. Hector Amezcua Sacramento Bee file
The Capitol dome glows on Nov. 14, 2019, after the sunset in downtown Sacramento. Daniel Kim dkim@sacbee.com
Majestic animal backdrops
One of the 39 Bengal, Siberian and Sumatran tigers lounges on acreage at Ark 2000 in San Andreas in 2005. Anne Chadwick Williams Sacramento Bee File
Tundra swans take flight from a rice field east of Marysville in Yuba County. Randy Pench Sacramento Bee file
Only a few days old, a Thoroughbred foal runs in the pasture with it’s mother at the Victory Rose Thoroughbreds ranch in Vacaville, Thursday, February, 11, 2015. Lezlie Sterling
A pair of pelagic cormorants sun themselves on a log, right, as a third splashes into the water on the Noyo River in Fort Bragg on Friday, November 9, 2012. If it’s November, damp and dank, it must be time to head to Mendocino and revel in mushroom culture. Mendocino in the fall is great for harvesting fungi. 2321 2012 Showcase Randall Benton Sacramento Bee File
A peacock makes his way through daffodils at Daffodil Hill in 2019. The popular destination near the Amador County community of Volcano closed that year. Hector Amezcua Sacramento Bee file
Return to sports backgrounds
The Sacramento Kings play the San Antonio Spurs during the season opening game at Golden 1 Center on Oct. 27, 2016. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com
Streamers fly through the air following the singing of the National Anthem on Opening Day baseball between the San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks on April 10, 2017 at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Jose Luis Villegas Sacramento Bee File
Sailboats in the Santana 20 class race around the marker during the Camellia Cup Regatta on Folsom Lake in 2012. Over 60 sailboats competed in a day of races in the area’s largest sailboat race of the year at the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area. Manny Crisosotomo The Sacramento Bee
The peloton rides past Caples Lakes during Stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California on May 13, 2019. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com
