Picture: Mother and daughter in field of flowers, Marin County, California My kids have the week off from school, and my wife has taken the week off from work. So this week, as well it should be, has me fully immersed in family. While I’m away from work and the…
Picture: Red sky at sunset over hills in Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California Click the photo to see it larger at 900 pixels. Ok, I’ll admit it; technically this isn’t really *my* first sunset, but it was the first sunset to be seen by my new Nikon D7000…
Picture: High above the Pacific Ocean along the steep and rugged hills of the Sonoma County coast, California
Picture: View from 36,000 feet over Utah One of the nice things about prioritizing some long overdue editing is finding shots you forgot had been sitting idle, quietly tucked away on a computer hard drive. This is one of those. If anyone recognizes the area, please let me know. I’m…
Picture: Wind Energy Turbines at Altamont Pass, California Why have just one when you can have twelve at twelve times the cost? Recently, I sent a request via US Mail to our Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for a certification used for getting paid by my overseas stock agents. I sent…
Picture: Fisherman holding up a catch & release steelhead caught in the Sacramento River near the Sundial Bridge in evening light, Redding, California I love to go fishing. I don’t really care if I catch a fish or not; it’s the activity and relaxation that matters. Still, I love the…
Picture: Seastacks, morning light, and fog along the coast near Elk, Mendocino County, California Click on the image to see it larger at 900 pixels. The morning this was taken, I woke up in Fort Bragg under such heavy coastal fog that it was actually drizzling. Those of us that…
Picture: Seagull sitting on coastal rock as waves break in the background at sunset, Jug Handle State Reserve, Mendocino County Coast, California Late last week I zipped up along the Mendocino Coast to get a few photos for an upcoming book project. I spent a wonderful morning in complete solitude…
Picture: “Balance this!” – Full moon setting over mountain ridge along the Sierra crest, near Tioga Pass, Eastern Sierra, California In photojournalism, the first thing you learn is “The Moment is Key.” The meaning of this is simple. If you don’t have an image that tells a story or reveals…
Picture: Moon setting over Boothe Lake, near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, Yosemite National Park, California I just returned from a 4-day solo backpacking trip into the Yosemite high country. It was a great personal goal, being the first time I’ve backpacked into the wilderness since my accident last year. When…
Picture: Waves of land and sky; fog rolling over the Berkeley Hills as seen from a ridge in Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California (Click the image to see it larger.) Last week I made a post about how I deliberately chose to not take a photo, even though…
Picture: Oak trees, cows and green grass on hills over valley in spring at sunset, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California When someone is looking at one of our photos, many photographers have heard the saying “Wow! You caught that at just the perfect moment.” Sometimes though, the perfect…
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Picture: Wood-carved statue of Sasquatch, a.k.a. Bigfoot in front of the Willow Creek Visitor Center, Humboldt County, California I took this image a couple years ago while doing the photography for my book, Backroads of the California Coast. Now I find myself coming back to it, as I’m now doing…
Picture: Young boy looking up at all the names on the wall at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii A few days ago I heard something about the experience of having your life flash before your eyes just before you die. I thought to myself, “Gee, I…
Picture: Panorama overlooking the Emigrant Wilderness at sunset near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California Click here or on the image to see the photo larger @ 1024 pixels. This is another of the images taken from my recent trip to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra Nevada. My buddy…
Picture: Overlooking the Sierra Nevada near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California This last weekend, my friend Michael Routh, a.k.a. the SmokeChaser and I made a trip up to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra. This was the first of several trips to the region for my new book project….
Picture: Photographer at work in the High Sierra, near Yosemite, California Today I turned in the edited manuscript and new chapter introductions for my current… no, wait… make that previous book project. I’m both proud and honored to announce that I have a brand new book project I’m now working…
Picture: Person reading on the coast on a cool evening, Montana del Oro State Park, San Luis Obispo County, California Recently I mentioned some news about my latest book project, where I’d gotten an email from my publisher explaining they were re-packaging the book I’d spent the last year working…
Starting earlier this Spring, while I was wrapping up the delivery on my last book project, my loving wife took on the task of coordinating the construction of my new office. This wasn’t really about me or my office needs, as it was about my son needing his own room…
Picture: Hula Dancer doing The Wedding Hula, Paradise Cove Luau, Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii Deep down, we all know it. But our brain likes to fill n the g ps. Objects that are farther away from us appear smaller. That’s obvious when you’re looking across a landscape toward a distant…
Picture: My wife, Connie, and daughter, Alyssa in Hawaii. Twenty-nine and a few extra years ago, the universe graced this planet with the birth of the woman who would become my wife, life partner, and soul mate. I consider that to be my greatest present, on this 28th day of…
Picture: Rainbow over Polynesian motif wood carving, Paradise Cove, Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. In fact, I say it just about every time I’m teaching somebody or some group about photography, or giving one of my workshop presentations. A boring subject in…
Picture: Sunrise light on cliffs above Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California Many of you will recall my numerous mentions here and elsewhere about my latest upcoming book, California; Yesterday & Today, that had originally meant to be published this year. That’s apparently not gonna happen now….
