Picture #01: Jet airplane with contrail flying through high cirrus clouds and a Circumzenithal arc Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# AVI-2173. Up, Up, and Away in my Beautiful Air-Flying-Thingy New Aerial and Aviation photos and pictures added to my Image Archive. I’ve had a life-long love of Aerial and…
Picture #01: Seattle city skyline with Mount Rainier in distance, Washington Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# SEAT-2030. Photos and pictures of Seattle scenes; More images from the back of the virtual closet. In my last post, I shared some images from a family spring break vacation featuring photos of…
Picture #01: Storm clouds over Cannon Beach coast from Ecola Point Viewpoint, Oregon Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# OCN-2006. Photos and pictures of the Oregon coast; Pulled from the back of the virtual closet. Once upon a family spring break trip to Seattle and down the Oregon coast, I…
A Selection of My Favorite Pictures Taken in 2022. Picture #01: (Above) East Bay hills at sunset looking across the San Francisco Bay toward Marin County, California – (Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage.) I hope you’ll enjoy this year-end collection featuring some of my favorite photographs made during…
BAY of LIFE: From Wind to Whales A New Photo Book by Frans Lanting & Chris Eckstrom I recently received a copy of Frans Lanting’s newest book, Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales, published hot off the press by Earth Aware Editions, 2022. This large, hardbound coffee-table-type book is…
Picture #01: Stormy evening sunset over the coastal cliffs at the Pomo Bluffs, Fort Bragg, Mendocino County coast, California Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# 221021ra_MNDO-0698. Mendocino Coast Photos taken during a Fort Bragg Weekend Getaway, California. Earlier this fall, my wife and I made a long weekend getaway trip…
Photo #1: Cyclists riding on twisting curves on road through grassy hills and oak trees, Mount Diablo State Park, California Changes on the Winding Road of Life Once upon a time… — professionally speaking — there was life before the Pandemic, then there was life during the Pandemic, and now…
View of the Bixby Creek Bridge on the Big Sur coast, Monterey County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# 220331_BSUR-0040. Soaking Up the Scenes and Taking Photos of the Beautiful Big Sur Coast, California. Earlier this year I had an opportunity to return home to the Bay Area from…
Photo: (Above) White sand beach at Playa Norte Beach, Isla Mujeres, Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico Purchase Prints or License Usage.ID# – CNCN-2012 Pictures of Cancun, the Maya Riviera, and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Photos; A New Image Gallery online. – I’m happy to announce that I’ve created a…
Looking out over the Ojai Valley, Ventura County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# 220328_Ojai-0088. A Day in the Valley of Ojai, California. Earlier this spring I had the unique privilege of being invited to lead a very select group of people for a photo workshop at an event…
Sunset over rolling green hills and cattle in the Briones Valley, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# 220117ra_BA3-0310h. I Got a New Camera! Here are some of my First Snaps of Cows and Green East Bay Hills. There seems to be a popular…
Cottonwood tree in wetlands at sunset, Merced National Wildlife Refuge, Merced County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage: ID# MRCD-2237. Photos Hiding on the Hard Drive I’m probably the only photographer with thousands of images sitting on their hard drives gathering virtual dust because they never got processed or shared….
A Selection of My Favorite Photos From 2021. Picture #01: (Above) Autumn afternoon by a pond in Massachusetts – (Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage.) I hope you’ll enjoy this year-end collection featuring some of my favorite photographs made during 2021. “I’m not sure you’d call it back on…
Photo: (Above) Radio Telescope at night in the Eastern Sierra, Inyo County, California Ground Control to Major Tom, What’s Up with the Radio Silence? *static* … *static* … *static* … “Can you hear me now?” Please pardon my absence. I’ve had a few friends and clients reach out to me…
Photos from a recent visit to the Angeles National Forest and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument near Los Angeles, CA. Photo #1: (Above) Sunset over the Angeles National Forest, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, Los Angeles County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage. ID# – 210420sa_SDA-1696 In my last…
Photo #1: The view from Palomar Mountain overlooking the Pauma Valley at sunset, San Diego County, California Purchase Prints or License Usage. ID# 210420sa_SDA-0197 Enjoying the View from Palomar Mountain in San Diego For better or worse, I was very good at not traveling during the height of the pandemic….
Photo: (Above) Cargolux Boeing 747-800 Cargo Freight plane on final approach landing at LAX – Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California Plane Spotting at LAX I know the song is called “Leaving on a Jet Plane;” Part of me wishes that was me ‘cuz I’d love to be on…
Photo: Truck on rural two-lane highway road in the Central Valley, Butte County, California What a long, strange trip it’s been… or hasn’t been… or will be. If you like musical references, you might also recall David Byrne’s classic lyrical line, “We’re on a road to nowhere…” With that in…
A Selection of Photos From 2020 – A year most of us might prefer to forget. Picture #01: (Above) Rolling hills at sunset in Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California – (Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage.) Please enjoy this year-end collection featuring some of my favorite images…
Photo: (Above) Sunset and storm clouds over a dirt road and layered sandstone rock cliffs in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah Remembering Past Travels Through the American West and the Tactile Joy of Working with Non-Digital Images 2020 continues to be an ‘interesting’ year to say the least….
Photo: (Above) Sidewalk outdoor wall art in Isla Mujeres, near Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico A Sampling of the Wonderful Outdoor Sidewalk Wall Street Art of Cancun & the Maya Riviera, Mexico My lack of any photographic travel during the new Covid-19 era of 2020 has been getting to me. To…
Photo: (Above) Storm clouds at sunset over lonely empty rural coutry road in the southern Central Valley, Kern County, California My brand new Premier Photo Gallery of ROADS, HIGHWAYS, and BRIDGES is now online. I’m delighted to announce a new three-page Premier Photo Gallery Portfolio containing Pictures of Roads, Highways,…
Photo: (Above) Stormy sunset light on electrical transformer box and telephone pole, Pleasant Hill, California Got any good photographic mantras? What’s a photographic mantra, you ask? It’s more than just a saying: A mantra is something you carry with you as part of your personal arsenal; an empowering combination of…
Photo: (Above) Comet Neowise over oak tree in the Alhambra Valley, Contra Costa County, California; July 2020 Purchase Prints or License Usage. ID# – 200720na_BA3-0052 Over the last few weeks an old but familiar refrain could be heard wafting over earthbound spectators: Look! Up in the sky; It’s a…
