Picture: Overview of the Marin County Watershed as seen from Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California I can understand why they’re upset. Marin County is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s more affluent regions. The normal cursory thought of “Well, they can afford it” would usually draw little attention. Yet…
Picture: High desert sage at sunrise in the Great Basin, near Wells, Nevada I spent the bulk of last week in Reno, Nevada, attending the 2010 Annual Summit Conference for the North American Nature Photography Association. Considering I had a book deadline coming up this next week, it was a…
Picture: Sunset over an empty stretch of Highway 50 “the loneliest Highway in America” in the high desert of Central Nevada. I’ve gone into a bit of a self-inflicted hermit mode while working on my current book project deadline. However, I want to let everyone know that I will be…
Picture: Footprints in the sand on beach at sunset, Golds Bluff Beach, Redwood National Park, Humboldt County, California Long time readers of this blog will know about some of my own personal incidents that happened over the last 12 months, and how I expressed their impact on my life perspective….
Picture: Interior of the Iron Door Saloon, est. 1852; the oldest continuously operating saloon in the state, Groveland, California I admit my frustration level has been met and exceeded. For nearly a decade working with Galen Rowell, running his stock department, I dealt with clients of every level, including editors…
Picture: Bidwell Mansion, Chico, California I tended to include “No HDR” with many of my landscape images posted online. I heard too many people say, “great use of HDR” at a time when I never used any automated HDR process on my images. Not long ago, I finally experimented with…
Picture: Air Force planes on display at the “Century Circle” near the main entrance gate to Edwards Air Force Base, near Mojave, California The saying goes, “My, how time flies when you’re having fun.” Right now, my slightly modified version reads, “…or working your backside off.” I feel kinda bad…
Last year, fellow photographer Jim Goldstein started a weblog projects about sharing your top photos of the year, so here are mine in an almost random order for 2009. (Given that I didn’t photograph for over half the year – I’ll take what I got.) #1. Stormy sunrise light over…
Photo: Fireworks burst over the city of San Francisco as seen from the Berkeley Hills, California “Happy New Year!” – from all of me at Enlightened Images. It’s been no secret that this has been one of my tougher years, and frankly, I’m glad to see it go. However, I’m…
Every so often I feel it’s important to pass along other great and important photo links, and numerous times of late, that has been thanks to the Boston Globe’s Big Picture. This time they’ve put together a collection of “The Decade in News Photos.” It’s 50 images; 49 compelling and…
Picture: Fresh snow on tree branches in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California I just heard the weatherman on the radio say, “only three more days until Winter.” It’s so odd that last week we had the lowest, longest-lasting snowfall in the San Francisco Bay Area in many many years….
Picture: Sunrise light on black, wrought-iron fence gate, Carneros region, Napa Valley, California In following with a discussion that was taking place on twitter, I responded with a quote: “A boring or ordinary subject in great light will always make a better photo than a great subject in boring or…
Picture: Canyon walls in evening light from Point Sublime, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona Another new image gallery has been posted on to my web site. Given the title of this post, and the photo immediately above, I guess it won’t come as any surprise when I announce…
Photo: Sunrise over Mt. Diablo and green East Bay hills near Orinda, Contra Costa County, California File under: Long overdue; I’ve added a few new photo galleries to my web site. One of them is a collection from my home stomping grounds, namely the East Bay Hills. The area covers…
Picture: A glorious sunset over the Coconino Plateau from the rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona It’s not quite as big as sobriety, but it does harken to a chemical dependancy. Two years ago this week, the boat I bought showed up in my driveway. Two years ago this week…
Picture(s): Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil skeleton in front foyer of the California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California Over the Thanksgiving Holiday week, I got my first chance, along with my family, to see the new home of the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Golden Gate Park….
Picture: The wrong bird for the day, but a much prettier bird… I just want to take a brief moment to wish everyone here in the U.S. a happy and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. I am thankful this year for having the love of my family, for being back at work,…
Picture(s): Lava Tube Cave Entrance, Lava Beds National Monument, Modoc County, California. Those people that know me and have seen my image postings around the internet may have seen many of my postings contain the phrase, “No HDR”. The only reason I posted that, and have mentioned before, is that…
File this one under: “The universe ain’t big enough for the two of us…” Picture: Moving rock at sunrise on the Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California Twice in the last few trips I’ve taken, I’ve had my personal space invaded when all around me there was nothing but…
Picture: Rainbow over the “Meat & Potatoes Palace”, near Hat Creek, California (A play off Galen Rowell’s famous photo, Rainbow over the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.) I love coming home after being on the road for more than a few days. Returning home to my wife and kids is…
Picture: Morning light on the Battleship USS IOWA (BB 61) as she sits awaiting her fate, moored in the Mothball Fleet, Suisun Bay, near Martinez, California See the image larger. Yesterday was a first. It was the first time that I specifically set out to use my boat as a…
Photo: Tourist overlooking Badwater and the Panamint Mountains at sunrise, Dante’s View, Death Valley National Park, California It was a long time coming; almost eight full months. As I drove, I kept hearing that old cowboy song reverbarating over and over in my head, “Back in the Saddle Again, Yes…
“Spirits in the Air” – Cloud rising into blue sky, Eastern Sierra, near Bishop, California It’s hard to explain; yesterday I spent an hour at the Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop. It was the first time I’ve been there in years, and only the second time that I’ve been there…
Picture: Sunset light on the peaks above Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park, California One of my photographer friends, Guy Tal, posted on his blog, er… web journal, yesterday that he was perhaps one of the last people to ride the photographic coat tails of Ken Burns’ recent PBS documentary…
