Workbench
Over the winter holidays I took our boys on a "field trip" to Fort Ross State Historic Park. Fort Ross marks the furthest point south of the expansion of the…
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January 6, 2012
Agaves
In the dead of winter there's not much color, even in California's usually highly saturated gardens. The Tilden Park Botanic Garden emphasizes California native plants. It's always a wonderful place…
January 2, 2012
Wheels within Wheels
This wheel of the thresher shown in Separating the Wheat from the Chaff called out to me because of the tonal contrast between its inner workings and outer structure. I…
November 17, 2011
Eureka Dunes
At the end of a remote valley in the northwest corner of Death Valley you'll find the Eureka Dunes. At close to 700 feet tall, these are probably the tallest…
November 9, 2011
Pfeiffer Beach by Moonlight
View this image larger. This is a two minute exposure by bright moonlight diffused through a layer of clouds taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. For this image…
October 31, 2011
Fog on the Coast
The sun was battling the fog, with the line of the coast the demilitarized zone. First the fog bank standing out to sea would ride in, covering the shore. Then…
October 21, 2011
Succulent
Briefly noted: I shot this succulent in the gardens at Esalen using my 85mm Nikon PC-E Micro-Nikkor f/2.8D tilt-shift macro lens. A tilt-shift lens helps correct lines of perspective when…
October 19, 2011
Aspens near Sonora Pass
Towards dusk, on the slow 20%-grade slopes up the Sonora Pass road on the Eastern slope of the Sierras, I passed this grove of Aspens. There was something about the…
August 4, 2011
On Turning Around
If you've ever gone shooting with a nature or landscape photographer worthy of their salt you'll notice that they turn around a great deal. Good photographers are not Prussian soldiers…
July 6, 2011
HDR Wringer
This is a side view of an old industrial clothes washing machine of the type that used to be called a "wringing mangle," or sometimes simply a "wringer." I'm thankful…
June 22, 2011
Digital Black & White Workshop
Please consider joining me for a hands-on black and white weekend workshop in beautiful Carmel, California, from Friday October 14 through Sunday, October 16, 2011 under the auspices of the Center for Photographic Art…
June 13, 2011
Monochromatic Inversion
An inversion, in noun form, is a reversal. In verb form, applying an inversion is inverting, or even "to invert." In Photoshop, you can invert an entire image, or a…
June 9, 2011
Structure of Time
Looking up through layers of rock makes me feel that I can see the structure of time moving at a geological pace. Note: This is an exposure blend of five…
June 5, 2011
Falling Sand
In Upper Antelope near Page, Arizona the sunbeams hit the slot canyon floor intermittently. Also intermittent, sand blew down in waves. The two conjoined in this 20 second exposure, with…
May 29, 2011
City as Landscape
Briefly noted: From near West Point Inn on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais I watched the fog come over the city of San Francisco and the Marin Headlands, with each…
March 23, 2011
Roundtrip in Black and White
This is a photo of a tree beside Route 120 near China Camp on the way to Yosemite. I shot the photo on a gray day, and underexposed by about…
March 18, 2011
Vanishing Point
I shot these railroad tracks near the dusty mining town of Trona, California---where I'll be headed again in the next couple of days on my way to Death Valley and…
February 25, 2011
Barn Door
I spent a thrilling couple of hours in the late afternoon photographing inside the old barn at the Pierce Ranch on the north fork (towards Tomales Point) of Point Reyes.…
February 12, 2011