(Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) A hawk soars above the Coyote Creek lagoon unit of Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in Fremont. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group) California lilacs bloom at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley on Thursday, March 5, 2020. One day earlier was the first day of spring.

Meyer/Bay Area News Group) An anise swallowtail butterfly lands on a flower at Hidden Lake Park in Martinez on Friday, March 20, 2020. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) The Peninsula rises above San Francisco Bay, as seen from a trail at the Alviso Marina County Park in Alviso on Sunday, April 5, 2020. A crow is silhouetted against the rising super moon Tuesday, April 7, 2020, in San Francisco. You can watch this video tutorial from Zoom. Click off the “mirror setting” to make sure our logo isn’t in reverse. Select “choose virtual background.” From there you can click the plus button, then “add image” and then select our downloaded image from your computer. Once you are in a Zoom meeting on your desktop computer, click the pull-down menu on the video icon on the bottom left of your screen. Just right-click one of the images below and select “save image as” to download it to your desktop.

To celebrate, download these spectacular images to use as your virtual background on Zoom. We sent our photographers out during quarantine - journalists are essential workers, after all - to capture the beautiful moments in nature we can’t see in person right now. The 50th anniversary of Earth Day is Wednesday, April 22, and just because we can’t go out and hug a tree together doesn’t mean we can’t show our appreciation.

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