Picture: Hiker and pool of water in narrow canyon, Red Cliffs Recreation Area, near St. George, Utah. It’s just about the perfect time of year for hikes like these. Not for me, not right now. I’m stuck in illness recovery mode. But my reason for posting this image today is…
Picture: Sunbeams through storm clouds at Death Valley National Park, California I’m so bummed; for a couple months I’ve had this week set aside to be down in Death Valley with some friends. Beginning early last week, events started to conspire against me, to the point where I finally had…
Picture: Rows of grape vines in vineyard in Spring, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California. It’s a bit premature for this year’s harvest, but a glass of wine is definitely in order. Today, I got my full collection of Sonoma Wine Country images fully archived and have started to send them…
Picture: Non-existant Yosemite Falls, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California This is a postcard photo you don’t see too often. It’s of a completely dry Yosemite Falls. There should be a dramatic white plume of cascading water, but the year when this photo (2001) was taken, the falls ran totally…
Picture: Clouds shroud a mountain peak near Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Imagine you go to a very scenic location for one day, like when I went to Whistler, BC., and the clouds never part. Bummer, huh? Now imagine you go to your computer to look at some of your photos,…
Picture: Sunset light on Sentinel Rock above Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California This is the photo that I try to keep in mind following my “diapers” incident. If you’d like to see where this will eventually appear on my web site, feel free to go check out my online…
Busy week on the Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filing front. Viacom, the media mega-giant that owns MTV & VH1 is suing YouTube for unlawful distribution of their copyrighted material. A year ago, this would probably not have happened as YouTube was just another Internet site on the rise. But now, the supreme…
Picture: Sunset light on Half Dome above Cooks Meadow, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California This picture makes me so angry. Well, it’s not really the picture that makes me angry, but rather the memory that it evokes. Now I think you’d all agree that Yosemite Valley is one of…
After my last post, I remembered this image in my files: So it turns out I did have more photos of dead fish. Picture: Sad fish on ice, Pikes Place Public Market, Seattle, Washington.
Picture: Dead fish on the shores of the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, near Brawley, California My buddy and I had pulled off along the side of the road at the edge of the Salton Sea to take some photos of the shoreline. As I walked out toward the water, intrigued…
Picture: Birds at sunset along the shore of the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, near Brawley, California This is near the Sonny Bono National Wildlife Preserve at the southern end of the Salton Sea. Looks like there’s a need for a little more help to protect all the pretty birds.
Here are a few quick questions for you; imagine your going in to a job interview, or bidding on a freelance job. What is your ‘worth’? How do you decide the on the value for what you produce? Does it matter to you if someone else benefits from your labors?…
Picture: Tourist information sign at sunrise from Keys View, Joshua Tree National Park, California This shot was taken last month on my first morning in Joshua Tree National Park. It was 11 degrees, the wind was blowing, my ski-liner gloves were missing two fingertips, and I’d had about 5 hours…
Picture: Ninja rock climber on granite, Joshua Tree National Park, California This is the photo I *was* going to post yesterday, before the point when I realized my weblog was “gone down”, “taking a nap”, “momentarily offline”, “on a break”, “in seclusion”, or any other manner of describing something currently unavailable. I like…
Picture: Looking out the barrack window at horse in corral, Pipe Springs National Monument, near Fredonia, Arizona  I mentioned previously that I was starting to process the images from my trip last fall to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. I’m actually now about 2/3rds of the way through the raw…
Picture: Granite boulder balanced in wedge rock, Joshua Tree National Park, California This week IÂ finished imaging all of the shots from my trip to the Palm Springs region. You’ll remember a couple posts back with the footsteps in the sand dune, I mentioned I was about half way done. Well,…
During the NANPA convention last month, I attended a digital workflow seminar with noted photographer George Lepp. During his presentation, he showed off features of a beta program called Adobe Lightroom. The beta was quick and packed with stuff. Now, George admitted he was using Jpegs for the presentation to…
Picture: Alpenglow at sunset on Mount Dana, reflected in alpine tarn at Tioga Pass, Yosemite National Park, California It’s going to be a number of months until this scene can be seen just like this. At just shy of 10,000 feet in elevation, Tioga Pass should be deep in snow,…
Picture: School bus on road through the desert at sunrise, near Ocotillo Wells, San Diego County, California On my recent trip to Southern California last month, I had one of those moments of sheer clarity; a true, “Thank God” moment. It was about 6:03 AM on a Monday morning as…
Picture: Footsteps along the ridge of a sand dune at sunrise, Algodones Dunes, Imperial Valley, near Brawley, California. I have that feeling again, as I sit here at my desk, neck deep in production. This is one of 300 images taken over a five day shoot around my attendence of…
Several image galleries worth taking a look at represent the winners of two notable “Of The Year” contests. First up are the ten winning images of the 2006 World in Focus Photo Contest put on by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. These are usually pretty images of places and cultures. FWIW, I…
Batton down those proverbial IP hatches, as AT&T is about to have a Supreme Court face-off with Microsoft over some intellectual property involving every PC sold running Windows software. Microsoft admits infringing on AT&T’s patent of a Digital Speech Coder when it developed it’s Windows OS, but new issues involve…
Picture: Coastal rocks and fog along the bluffs at Cambria, San Luis Obispo County, Central Coast, California. We’re having such a mild winter here in the Bay Area, that aside from the mild chill in the air, we could be considered “seasonless”. One of the great things about the climate…
This one actually even needs a third title; “The Year That Really Lept“. Here’s one I really haven’t seen before. I can’t imaging any photographer, photo-editor, or news editor letting this one fall through the crack, but MSNBC (and / or Fox) got some serious problems with their ability to…
