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New Assignment: The American West

Picture: Delicate Arch at Sunset, Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah. (Side note: Some of you may have seen this image last Fall. It was featured on the cover of The Territory Ahead catalog.) Friday afternoon, a day when business calls are usually light, I got a phone call from…

Gary CrabbeApril 1, 2007

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Photo: Hiker in Canyon, Utah

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 28, 2007

California Clouds and Sky Deserts National Parks Photos Travel

The one that got away

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 26, 2007

California Photos Spring Travel vineyards

Photo: Sonoma Vineyards in Spring

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 22, 2007

California Environment Mountains National Parks Travel Water

Photo: A sign of climate change in Yosemite?

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 19, 2007

California Mountains National Parks Photos Sunset Travel

Photo: My ‘replacement’ memory, Yosemite Valley

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 14, 2007

California Environment Mountains National Parks Photos Rants and Raves Sunset Travel

The Beauty and the Horror

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 13, 2007

Animals Photos Travel

OK, I lied.

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.

Gary CrabbeMarch 6, 2007

California Deserts Mountains National Parks Photos Sunrise Travel

Photo: The Desert Besieged at sunrise

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…

Gary CrabbeMarch 1, 2007

California Deserts National Parks People Photos Sports & Recreation Travel

Photo: Spiderman, Spiderman; Does whatever a spider can…

Picture: Ninja rock climber on granite, Joshua Tree National Park, California This is the photo I *was* going to post yesterday,Â before theÂ point whenÂ 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…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 27, 2007

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Photo: Now You See Me – Now you Don’t

Picture: Looking out the barrack window at horse in corral, Pipe Springs National Monument, near Fredonia, Arizona Â 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…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 27, 2007

California Deserts National Parks Photos Travel

Photo: Perfect Fit – Balanced between a rock and a hard place

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,…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 24, 2007

California Mountains National Parks Photos Reflections Summer Travel Water

Photo: Mountain Sunset Reflection in Yosemite

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,…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 20, 2007

California Deserts Mountains Photos Roads Sunrise Travel

Photo: The Long Road to Higher Education

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…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 17, 2007

California Deserts Photos Sunrise Travel

Photo: Footprints on a sand dune

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…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 13, 2007

California Coast Photos Travel

New Photo of the Month; February 2007

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…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 3, 2007

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