Photo: (Above) Photographer taking pictures of a close up detail using a cellphone camera at Drakes Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California Especially for my Bay Area and Northern California friends: Are you feeling an essential desire to go out and take some photos and stretch your photographic…
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Photo: Green hills in spring, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, CaliforniaPurchase Prints or License Usage. Image ID# – 200420sa_BA3-0264 When Things Change in the Blink of an Eye… Well, here we remain: Stuck in a Pandemic-closed society. Here in California’s Bay Area — the first area in the nation…
What Now? What’s Next? Life Through a Socially Distant Lens. Photo: (Above) An empty picnic table on a dock on a quiet lake in the morning, Lafayette Reservoir, Lafayette, California Is it just me? Alone… but not alone. The COVID-19 pandemic is a chilling reminder that we are a social…
Photo: Spiderweb with raindrops at Limantour Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California We are all entering new and uncharted territory in these modern times where the COVID-19 virus is at the very forefront of societal consciousness. The new term of “Social Distancing” has now stamped itself into the…
A Collection of My Favorite Cellphone Photos Taken in 2019. Picture #01: (Above) Portrait of an Alligator Lizard, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California For the last bunch of years, I’ve put together a retrospective of my Favorite Photos of the Year. (Click here to see My Favorite Photos…
A Collection of My Favorite Photographs Made in 2019. Picture #01: (Above) Sunset over the rolling green hills of 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 made in 2019. As…
Photo: (Above) Visitors in The Humble Administrator Garden, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China Two days spent visiting the gardens and canals of Suzhou, China. Five Weeks in China; Part Two. In my first (previous) post, I reported on how I came to spend nearly five and…
Photo: (Above) Fall foliage along the South Fork of the Kings River, Kings Canyon National Park, California Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage. ID#: KCNP-2024 I’m just now catching up on a bunch of things including processing and posting images here, announcements, trip reports, and other interesting tidbits…
Photo: (Above) Imperial Roof Charm Decorations on the Daci’en Temple at the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Xi’an, China How Doing a Small Favor Turned into Spending Five Weeks in China; Part One & Preview Photos. It all started with a Facebook post from a friend:…
Participant Photos from my August 2019, 3-Day Point Reyes “Focus on Fog” Photography Workshop. Image (above): Wave breaking beneath dock in Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California A few weeks ago I spent another weekend with a wonderful group of people at my 3-Day Point Reyes “Focus on Fog”…
My first shoot testing out my new Sony FE 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G OSS Lens Photo: (Above) View from Rosendin Park at sunset from Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County, California. 170mm 1/500s at f/8.0 ISO 100 *Click here to see larger. You may think that as a multi-decade professional photographer, buying…
New Weather Photo Portfolio Gallery now online! Photo: (Above) Crepuscular rays (sunbeams) behind stratocumulus clouds at sunrise, Kauai, Hawaii Purchase Prints or License Usage.ID# – 170720sa-HI-1021 Please enjoy this 2-page Gallery containing a variety of Weather, Clouds, and Sky Photos. This Premier Portfolio Collection of beautiful atmospheric photos and pictures…
Participant Photos from my March 2019, 3-Day Point Reyes Chimney Rock Headlands Photo Retreat photography workshop. Image (above): The cliffs of Drakes Beach along Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California Last month, I spent a few days with a wonderful small group of people at my 3-Day Point…
Photo: (Above) Desert road and fog over Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada I’ll be spending next week in Las Vegas for the North American Nature Photographer Association (NANPA) Bi-Annual Summit Conference. I’m looking forward to seeing many of my photographer friends again as well as getting to meet many…
Picture #01: (Above) Evening moonrise over Half Dome and Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California For the last number of years, I put together a retrospective of my Favorite Photos of the Year. Click here to see My Favorite Photos of 2018 — images taken with what I call my…
Picture #01: (Above) Bird on rock and crashing waves at sunset on Bandon Beach, Bandon, Oregon – (Click here to Purchase Prints or License Usage.) Please enjoy this year-end collection of my favorite thirteen images made throughout 2018. (#13 is a lucky number in our family.) I’d love to know…
Photo: (Above) Waves rolling onshore at Glass Beach, MacKerricher State Park, Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California A Visit to Glass Beach in Fort Bragg, California -Please Don’t Take Our Trash. I was out of the office for most of October traveling or working on outside projects. Among my travels was…
Participant Photos from my September 2018 3-Day Point Reyes Chimney Rock Headlands Photo Retreat photography workshop. Image (above): Dawn light over the old fish station dock on Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California A couple weeks back I had another chance to spend a few days with a…
Participant Photos from my August 2018 3-Day Photographing the Beaches of Point Reyes photography workshop. Image (above): Cormorants on the pier at the Historic Lifeboat Station on Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California Late last month I had a chance to spend several days with a wonderful…
There are just one or two spots left in my upcoming 3-day Point Reyes Headlands Photo Retreat workshop on September 21-23, 2018. This exclusive class is limited to a maximum of six participants and includes accommodations at The Chief’s House located near the Chimney Rock trailhead. This is a fantastic…
Photo: (Above) “Obsidian Dreams” – Big Obsidian Flow, Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Oregon I recently returned from a full week in Central Oregon; Granted, it was an extended-family vacation. As I had done on numerous other family vacations, I brought multiple cameras with definitive plans for a variety of picture…
Join me for my upcoming Photographing the Beaches of Point Reyes Photo Workshop August 24 – 26, 2018 What could be nicer than spending a weekend photographing some of California’s best beaches while staying inside the beautifully scenic Point Reyes National Seashore? For my Bay Area and California friends, I…
