The Year in Pictures 2018
Our Annual Photographic Review of the Year That Was
Photographs by Paul Wellman Unless Otherwise Noted
There’s no doubt about it: 2018 will go down in the annals of Santa Barbara history as one of the most tragic and dramatic years on record.
Just as we’d all started to breathe a little easier after the Thomas Fire, a torrential rainstorm unleashed a cataclysmic debris flow onto Montecito in the wee hours of January 9, killing nearly two dozen, destroying entire neighborhoods, and changing the landscape forever.
