Distant Japanese Landscape
About half a mile before reaching Hyakken-gura, I paused in the steady rain. Peering out from beneath my umbrella, I could see through the pine trees to a distant landscape…
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December 6, 2013
Playing with my boys on Point Reyes
On the Friday of the Thanksgiving weekend I drove out with my boys---Julian, Nicky and Mathew---to Point Reyes. Nicky's friend Tamen came along too. It was a balmy, almost summer-like…
December 2, 2013
Along the Kumano Kodo
Along the ancient Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail there is mostly the silence of the weather. Wind whistles through the trees and a fine mist falls drop by drop. It wasn't always…
December 1, 2013
Of drinking and not driving
Aya, her father, and a business associate met me at the small Awa Yamakawa train station. It was already getting dark, so we drove across the river to a restaurant…
November 22, 2013
Misty Mountains
At 6AM my iPhone alarm rang. I raised my head off the futon, pulled the screen aside, and peered out the window at a world of driving rain. Yunomine Onsen…
November 16, 2013
Dawn in the High Fields
Early morning light coming through the Shoji screens woke me. I opened the screen and stared out at a chill world with fog hanging in the distant valleys. This was…
November 13, 2013
Getting to know Kyoto
I don't know what to make of Kyoto yet. Coming from Tokyo on the Nozomi Super Express #23 bound for Hakata, a Shinkanzen (bullet train) among Shinkanzen, it was clear…
November 4, 2013
Just So Story
On an overcast and gray day, I took the RER (Réseau Express Régional) out of central Paris to the suburb of Bourg-la-Reine. From the train station in Bourg-la-Reine I humped…
October 22, 2013
Behind the Clock
This is a shot from behind the clock on the top floor of the Musée d'Orsay looking at the Louvre across the Seine River. The Musée d'Orsay is converted from a railway…
October 18, 2013
Dreaming of Giverny
I dreamed I saw Monet's garden at Giverny again. This time in autumn. My dream was waking, and I was really there. What a pleasure to be at Giverny with…
October 17, 2013
Tree Line
This is a shot looking almost straight up at the line of trees in the late afternoon in the Parc de Sceaux (pronounced "Park de So") using my 15mm f/2.8…
October 14, 2013
Bixby Bridge by Starlight
I've enjoyed photographing the dramatic Bixby Bridge on the Big Sur coast at night over the years, and it is always fun to take a workshop group to the location.…
October 2, 2013
Timeless: The White Mountains
I have two prints in the exhibition Timeless: The White Mountains at Photo Fine Art Photography in Oakland, CA (one is of the Distant Night Storm image shown below). The exhibition runs…
September 2, 2013
On the Dunes
Coming down from the highest parts of Eureka Dunes, located in a remote corner of Death Valley National Park, the last light of the day made a halo around the…
August 18, 2013
Lone Pine Sunset
Late in the afternoon on a chilly November day the sun peeked out east of the Sierras. Looking up, I could see patches of new snow that the autumn storm…
August 17, 2013
Swinging under the stars
The world's best swing is under an old oak tree on the Bolinas plateau facing the Mount Tamalpais ridge line. It is shown here under the oak tree by starlight…
July 9, 2013
Does a sunset need color?
Photographing from Hawk Hill was truly one of those great moments in the life of a photographer. In front, the extra-large June "super moon" cleared the city of San Francisco…
June 25, 2013
Parc de Sceaux
Andre Le Notre is the Frederick Law Olmsted of France. Like Olmsted, Le Notre is the essential landscape designer of his country. In Olmsted's case, much of the inspiration came…
May 1, 2013