Skip to main content
search
Category

Photos

BooksPhotosSigns

Hanging out with some pretty big names.

Picture: Sign marking the border at a trail entrance to the Ansel Adams Wilderness, near Devils Postpile, Eastern Sierra, California I don't normally like to "drop names" but I hope you'll bear with me for a moment as I indulge. Last week I received the layout for my upcoming book,…
Gary Crabbe
December 3, 2010
CaliforniaClouds and SkyPhotosSunset

My Very First Sunset

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…
Gary Crabbe
November 19, 2010
AerialsPhotosUtah

High Over Utah

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…
Gary Crabbe
November 4, 2010
CaliforniaOutdoorsPeoplePhotosWater

The joy of the catch

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…
Gary Crabbe
October 26, 2010
MoonMountainsPhotos

For one brief moment

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…
Gary Crabbe
October 7, 2010
CaliforniaPhotosWeather

Waves of Land and Sky

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…
Gary Crabbe
September 20, 2010
AnimalsCaliforniaPhotosUncategorized

Do you believe?

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…
Gary Crabbe
September 8, 2010
CaliforniaMountainsPanoramicPhotos

Another Sierra Panoramic

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…
Gary Crabbe
August 24, 2010
CaliforniaMountainsPhotos

An Alpine Escape

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.…
Gary Crabbe
August 18, 2010
BooksCoastPeoplePhotos

More Book News 1a

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…
Gary Crabbe
August 5, 2010
HawaiiPeoplePhotos

Fun with Scale, Hawaiian-style.

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…
Gary Crabbe
July 30, 2010
PeoplePhotosUncategorized

A Gift from the Universe

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…
Gary Crabbe
July 28, 2010
Enlightened Images
Subscribe

Get free information and updates

Stay up-to-date about new image galleries, workshops, travel, books, and other noteworthy announcements.