Photographer Marc Riboud was once quoted as saying, "Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second."
Merced Sun-Star photographer Marci Stenberg relished every moment of her career, and her excitement for the art was truly indicative of her work.
On this page is a collection of photographs by Stenberg, who died Dec. 21 at her Merced home. She was 66 years old.
Merced Sun-Star - MARCI STENBERG@mercedsunstar.com The landscape along the northern entrance to Yosemite National Park, Sunday, October 23, 2011, is covered with brightly colored, bushes, leaves and vegetation, fall is definitely here. In the next two to three weeks the colors should be at their peak in Yosemite National Park.
Merced Sun-Star - Aerial photo of Castle Air Museum, by Marci Stenberg
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG AsDamian Leon, middle, along with his three-year-old niece, Jacquelyn Rosa, right, and seven-year-old nephew Gonzalo Rosa, left, are saddened as they look through the black ironed bars surrounding the McNamara Pool, with a tarp covering it on 11th street, Friday, June 24, 2011 afternoon. Mercedians won't be able to take advantage of the city's pools to keep cool this year, because the pools will be closed due to budget cuts.
Merced Sun-Star - "A Fallen Hero." Photo of 2008 funeral for Correctional Officer Jose Rivera, by Marci Stenberg.
Merced Sun-Star - "Rescue on the Merced River." Sheriff's deputies responded to assist rafters who'd fallen into the river in 2011. During the rescue, one of the deputies' rafts overturned. PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG
Merced Sun-Star - "After the Rainstorm." 2004 photograph by Marci Stenberg
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG A georgeous sunset lent its beauty to reflections between the breaks of ice in Tenaya Lake on Highway 120, Monday, May 25 evening.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Thirty of Lorrie Rose's friends gathered on the curb on M Street, across from the San Simeon Professional Center, where Rose was taken by ambulance to a mediflight helicopter with a gun shot wound to the head. Rose was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Funeral was held for Rose on January 28, 2011.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Merced City, County, Cal Fire and volunteers all worked to extinguish a structure fire at 6075 Country Club Drive, Monday, June 27, 2011 afternoon. Firefighters resorted pumping water from the family swimming pool as they worked to extinguish the fire from the back side of the house. Flames bellowed from all rooms of the house and rooftop.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Albert Campos with a taser still in his left cheek, was placed in the back of a police vehicle on Union Ave. in Merced, Friday, January 14, 2011 morning and arrested as a suspect in a burglary.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Driver of this big rig going south on Lander Ave. just south of Turner Road, lost 50,000 pounds of peaches as his load shifted, when he was rounding a curve Wednesday, Auguast 10, 2011 morning.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Two Riggs ambulances collided at the intersection of 15th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way Saturday evening. One of the ambulances was traveling east on 15th Street and the other was going north on MLK Jr. Way code three to an emergency call. No injuries were reported and the accident is still under investigation.
Merced Sun-Star - MARCI STENBERG/mstenberg@mercedsunstar.com Walker Murphy, 10, Ada Givens School stresses over the word "Verbatim" during the Merced County 2012-2013 Spelling Bee held in the Atwater Community Center Wednesday 12-05-2012 morning. He ended up misspelling the word which took him out of the competition. The students were allowed four misses and that was his fourth misspelled word.
Merced Sun-Star - MARCI STENBERG/mstenberg@mercedsunstar.com The 2012 Buhach Colony Make A Wish Rally received many meaningful and heart touching wishes. With all the hard work of the Buhach Leadership many wishes came true.MC Darin Dupont, right, announces that Karissa Cota, left, and her sister Anisa will receive two tickets to a Giants game from an anonymous donor.These two girls have gone through a lot the last 8 months. Their mother had surgery and had severe complications due to it. The two sisters gave up thieir own social lives and many school activities to be at their mother's side and take care of her so their dad could work and suppport their family, Wednesday, 12-12-2012, during a Wish Rally at Buhach Colony High School.
Merced Sun-Star - MARCI STENBERG The slide that shut down Hw 140 on the way to Yosemite during the big flood in 1997. From newspaper archives.
Merced Sun-Star - A group of children are shown, playing in water from a fountain. PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG
Merced Sun-Star - Sun-Star Photo by Marci Stenberg Tens of thousands of snow geese come into the wetlands near Los Banos. The geese use the wetlands to fatten up before flying to the Arctic to breed in the summer.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Windfall the black bear at the Applegate Zoo in Merced California.
Merced Sun-Star - SUN-STAR PHOTO BY MARCI STENBERG Mike Anderson Sr. keynote speaker at the First Responder's Day Parade ceremony, receives a big hug from Regina Cake after he spoke before the community during the 9/11 ceremony at the American Legion Post 83 on Main Street in Merced on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 morning.
Many of her works are fun and whimsical, such as a photograph of a bear at the Applegate Zoo, who is apparently curious about her camera lens. Others are elegant and mystical, such as the photo of autumn foliage at Yosemite National Park.
Stenberg also was known as an experienced crime and fire photojournalist. Many of her photographs were taken within minutes after law enforcement arrived at the scene. Her photos often captured crucial moments of life and death.
She worked at the Sun-Star for 24 years, garnering a reputation among area residents as the eyes of Merced County, telling the region's story through her photographs.
A memorial service for Stenberg is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. today at Gateway Community Church, 353 E. Donna Drive, Merced.
-- Sun-Star staff
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