Death Valley Landscapes
There are few more beautiful landscapes on this good earth than Death Valley. Here are a few images from my recent visit, with the photographs emphasizing patterns and folds in…
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February 28, 2020
Snows of Yesteryear
Thinking about the upcoming photography conference in Yosemite led me to browse through some of my archives of work of Yosemite in winter's past. Digital means never having to say…
November 2, 2019
Paris Landscape
With the storm receding, from the top of the Tour Montparnasse near sunset, Paris looked like it could be any other rain-wracked landscape (of course, it is not, there is…
April 29, 2019
Apparently Home to Manatees and More
After my workshop in West Palm Beach, I had a morning to explore south Florida. I rented a car, and drove through scrub and pre-Everglades marsh inland to Lake Okeechobee---seemingly…
February 13, 2019
Hitting the Flickr Explore Jackpot with Crepuscular Coast
My monochromatic image Crepuscular Coast (shown above) hit Flickr Explore yesterday. This is a reprocessed version of the original image, which I originally photographed, processed, and posted in October 2018…
January 24, 2019
Weston Gallery sells two prints of my work
I am very pleased that Weston Gallery has sold two prints of my work. The subject of each print is a California mountain landscape. One is a panorama, Panorama of the…
November 10, 2018
Crepuscular Coast
The sun coming over the mountains, and fog rising from the ocean, combined in crepuscular rays to first illuminate the coastal bridge and then with chiaroscuro light the rocky shore.…
October 22, 2018
Endless Summer
The last few days on the Mendocino coast have been an endless summer with blue arcing skies, crisp waves, and orange sunsets. Today we headed north past the Lost Coast,…
October 8, 2018
Devil’s Postpile
Deep in the heart of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, down the drainage of the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin River from the Minarets, Mt Banner, and the Ritter Range,…
October 3, 2018
East of the Sierras
Coming down the long steep road from Tioga Pass, the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains was hazy. In the distance, thunder rumbled. Then, to my surprise, a sharp…
September 7, 2018
Mountains of the Mind
Mist in the distant mountains is nature's way of replacing clarity of sight with unspoken nuance. We do not know what lies beneath the layers of mist, but there is…
July 28, 2018
New print on Moab Entrada Rag Textured
As you can see here, I just made a new print on Moab Entrada Rag Textured. I'm pleased with the way this came out, and I think the moderate texture…
March 8, 2018
From the iPhone files
Here are two recent iPhone images. I photographed the tree in the Walnut Creek area in the foothills below Mt Diablo. This was originally two iPhone captures, one exposed for…
February 10, 2018
Two from the Western Slope
Here are two images from my visit to the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in November (click each image to view them larger).
December 21, 2017
Marin Coast with old gun emplacement
The Marin Coast is astoundingly beautiful for being so near a major city (San Francisco). We are lucky that much of it remains undeveloped, and that environmentalists won the battles…
December 19, 2017
Point Bonita
At dusk the outer cliffs of the Headlands become shrouded in mystery. Point Bonita Lighthouse guards the approach to the Golden Gate, as it has since the days of steamships.…
December 17, 2017
How Long Must Eye Wait?
Wedged in a crack behind the aptly-named Ladyboot Arch in the Alabama Hills of the eastern Sierra near the Nevada border of California, I already knew this wasn't going to be…
November 7, 2017
Grizzly Falls
Just off the road along the South Fork of the Kings River in Kings Canyon National Park, Grizzly Falls presented great contrasts of light and dark. I used a neutral…
November 3, 2017