Zohe’s Eye:
Looking through these images, I kept asking myself — what ISN’T there to love about the Santa Barbara Courthouse? It’s iconic. It’s stunning. It’s one of those backdrops that makes photographers weep with gratitude. But the photo I kept coming back to? The couple inside the Clerk Recorder’s office, and the light is hitting just right.
There’s something about that room that stops you. It’s calm. It’s warm. It feels, inexplicably, like home — which is a wild thing to say about a government office, and yet here we are. I can’t fully explain it. I just know that every time I step inside, something settles. The magic of Santa Barbara starts right there, in that room, with that license…