Picture: The Embarcadero Office Tower at Four Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California Since I did a last post from my old office, it should be fitting to make a first post from my new office. After days of dedicated moving and cleaning over the Fourth of July holiday, I’m delighted…
Picture: Wooden deck chair and storm clouds at sunset over Lake Bomoseen, near Rutland, Berkshire region, Vermont This is it. One last post… I don’t get a vacation this holiday weekend. My wife & kids do. They’re enjoying a weekend in the Sierra at my Sister-in-Law’s cabin near Arnold. I…
Picture: The US Flag and the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. Seeing as how this is the 4th of July weekend, a big Holiday here in the United States where we celebrate the birth of our country, born out of the Revolutionary War, I thought a picture…
Picture: Hula Dancers underneath an evening moon while performing at the Paradise Cove Luau, Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii. The title words alone should give you a good hint at where I’ve been. And it was a long time overdue. I just finished a two week family vacation, of which one…
Picture: Sunrise light on the western Sierra foothills, Fresno County, California Click on the photo to see the image larger. This image follows on the heels of my last post. As I mentioned, I’m usually attracted to the larger landscape type photos, but will use my eyes like a virtual…
Photo: Morning light on tree-covered hillside in the Sierra Foothills, Fresno County, California See the image larger. Whenever I work with other photographers in a workshop setting, giving a lecture or presentation about improving their photography, I have a few general themes that I like to try and hammer into…
Picture: Sunrise light on Mount Tom and the Eastern Sierra over cattle grazing in pasture in the Round Valley, near Bishop, California Click the image to see the photo larger in a new window. This is another image that marks one of my first few attempts at a panoramic composition…
Picture: My wife, Connie. Readers of this weblog know that I very rarely ever use this space for expressing personal items, or even more rarely, political opinions. Today, I make an exception on a personal note. I want to publicly tell my wife, Connie, how much I love her, and…
Picture: Car driving on suburban street in downtown Pleasant Hill, California. File this one under: Photography is not a crime, or “Are you by chance a little paranoid?” After all, it was the British rock group, The Kinks, who reminded us that paranoia is The Destroyer. Not long ago I…
Picture: Road sign pointing to Sand Dunes at Mesquite Flat, Death Valley National Park, California I occasionally find a sign that I think will make for a good photo. Signs are a form of communication. Photography is a form of communication. It only goes say that one can often compliment…
Picture: Photographer next to tracks left by mysterious moving rocks on the dried flat mud at the Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California Last fall I had my first chance to visit the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley National Park. While walking out on the Playa, I met a…
Picture: Sunset light on the Trona Pinnacles, near Ridgecrest, California Yesterday I announced through my Facebook & Twitter profiles that I’d just completed a weeks long edit of a 10 day trip I took last fall to Death Valley & the Sierra while working on my book, California; Yesterday &…
Picture: Late afternoon cloud drifting into trees, Mineral King, Sequoia National Park, California My 11-year-old son recently spent his first week away from home while attending his fifth-grade camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains. When he returned, I found out that one of the things they had done was to…
Gopher poking head out of ground burrow, Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley Hills, California Photographer Jack Hollingsworth is very popular in the twitter-verse and social media circles. He has recently been posting a number of excellent weblog articles using the title premise, “I am…“. I thought I would take a moment…
Picture: Mysterious moving rock on the Racetrack Playa at sunset, Death Valley National Park, California “Left Turn, Clyde.” It’s probably the only line I remember from the Clint Eastwood movie, Every Which Way But Loose. Looking at this image, I have to ask, “Do you ever feel like this rock?”…
Picture: Campfire Detail, Somewhere in Oregon Every year the Burning Man event is held in the Nevada desert. Every year I want to attend. Every year I read their policy and restrictions regarding photography taken on-site. Every year I think, “What a bunch of hypocrites.” Every year, I’ve chosen not…
Picture: A California Condor at the Condor Ridge exhibit of the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Photo by Chuck Szmurlo. Now that I’m back from a week off with my family for Spring Break, I wanted to take a moment and respond to my last post, “Why I Like Free…
Picture: Shelter on Mount Whitney’s summit, Sierra Nevada, California; Photo by Justin Johnsen I know it must sound crazy at first; why would a professional photographer be happy about other photographers giving away their work for free? Given the dire warnings about how microstock was driving the stock photography industry…
Picture: Large rock boulder balanced on edge, Joshua Tree National Park, California Last week I posted this image on my Facebook business page. I’ve mentioned previously that I don’t do “art speak” or give my images artsy titles. However, on a few very rare occasions an image will speak to…
Picture: Dark storm clouds over Balanced Rock at sunset, Arches National Park, Utah Chicken Little said, “The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!” I just saw that stock photo industy guru, Jim Pickerell wrote in his newsletter, “Selling Stock”: “The stock photo industry is in turmoil. Never in more…
Picture: The end of the rainbow over trees & forest in a valley near Hat Creek, Lassen County, California Click here to see the photo larger. I took this image last fall after leaving the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in remote Lassen County. I saw the rainbow starting to form,…
Picture: Gold miners working hydraulic mining water monitors, blasting away at a hillside, Nevada County, California; circa 1866 Photo Credit: Library of Congress That history-related book project I’ve been working on over these last many months is now, as they say, history. I am so delighted to report that as…
Picture: Old Grave marker headstone (1891) behind old wooden church, Hornitos, Sierra Foothills, Mariposa County, California I was brought up believing it’s not polite to dance on the grave of your enemy. Yet, I must admit that news last week had me wondering if I could get away with at…