One From The Vault
August 2, 2007
A couple of years ago (September ’05) Jason and I took off for Yosemite one weekend. We packed the car full of medium and large format cameras, related equipment and a couple of sleeping bags and left after work on a Friday evening. Jason had rented a couple of 8×10 lenses to play with and […]
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Joshua Tree National Park
March 19, 2007
I managed to make a visit to Joshua Tree National Park this past week. The sun was bright and the atmosphere thin which is what i’m going to blame the slight overexposure on. (that or the dehydration and threat of leaping scorpions). I’ve got a bunch of stuff from the past week coming up – […]
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Snow Covered Trees in Montana
April 25, 2008
We’re getting ready to walk out the door for a night or two in Yosemite (undetermined at this point). I was planning on scanning some more and running some film but i was away for a couple of days at an off-site (work speak for a multi-day meeting). I still have a few things kicking […]
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The Merced River
August 1, 2008
Whoops – been tied up for a few days… I still have some more material from the SoFoBoMo project. Here’s another of the Merced River..
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Morning Light on the Tuolumne River
August 30, 2007
We were only there for 2 mornings, but this is what it look on each of them. The water was so clear you could generally see down to the bottom no matter how deep it was (granted it’s late summer and the water isn’t really that deep, maybe 20 feet at the most). More than […]
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Humboldt Redwoods State Park
January 22, 2008
A second shot from Humboldt Redwoods State Park. The first is here
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Mountain Top – YNP, CA
April 25, 2007
I didn’t know the name of this peak when i make the picture, and i still can’t figure it out. What struck me initially was the way the light was hitting it, strong on left but without casting a sharp shadow over the right. While the morning clouds and mist blew by the light changed […]
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Bridal Veil Falls Runoff
May 26, 2008
We just returned from the Strawberry Music Festival which took place up near the Hetch Hetchy. The weather was no friend to us though as the temperature was about 40 degrees and rainy (hard rain mostly) the entire time we were there. That could have been ok had we not been prepared for 80 degrees […]
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Stream – Redwood National Forest
April 17, 2007
I started reading the biography of Eadweard Muybridge more than a year ago. Since then i’ve been trying to shoot more waterfalls and running water and the like – trying to make pictures look like the way they used to (without the boiling mercury and all that). See… Muybridge was the man who made it […]
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Burney Creek – Burney State Park
August 6, 2007
Just past the waterfall a stream forms and carries through the valley off into the woods. I climbed out into what became a precarious position and made this image. The total exposure was about 1 minute with a light(ish) neutral density over the lens. If it weren’t for the mosquitoes i could have stayed out […]
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Bridal Veil Falls – Yosemite National Park
April 22, 2007
I’ve spent the week processing and scanning pictures from our last trip to yosemite… It had been a while, more than 6 months i think, since i’ve been out there. This was the first time i’ve ever been to yosemite where the weather could be considered bad. It was cold, windy and rained pretty much […]
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Snow Melt – Merced River
June 25, 2008
It’s hard to tell if rocks are 3 feet under water or 3 inches when the river is flowing in the springtime.
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Pacific Coast Highway
March 27, 2007
Another in a series of captures from the California coast 2 weekends ago. If i remember correctly we’d stopped an hour or two before in SLO at at a fantastic barbecue place we stumbled upon right down the road from the house of junk. Returning to San Francisco from the coast it’s such a foreign […]
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Fallen Tree, Make Lake – Burl Detail
October 15, 2007
We just got back from a short trip to Austin, TX. Home of live music (lots of it), bats (didn’t see even one of em) and bbq (saw lots of that). I have a few frames from my one attempt at shooting the famous bats at sunset. In the end there were no bats, but […]
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Three Rocks
November 10, 2008
Sometimes you go into a shooting lull. It’s happened to me in the past but i don’t think to this degree. I’m starting too feel more motivated and in fact have a thanksgiving trip approaching where i hope to reengage. Until then please continue to enjoy (perhaps not the right word at this point) some […]
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Along the Embarcadero: Palm Trees
May 5, 2005
Sometimes i set out to photograph the things that i see every day thinking that i can make them look really cool. Instead they turn out looking exactly the way they look every day, which isn’t spectacular but isn’t bad, it just… is. is that bad? good i can’t tell? I’ve been experimenting with these […]
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Mason and Green St: Right In Front of My Old House
April 12, 2005
Everyone loves cable cars right? The tourists sure do. It’s kind of funny – if you take pictures of the cable car the people riding them pose for you. They’re really proud of the fact that they’re on the cable car – maybe just that they made it through the line to ride the thing […]
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The Belly of the Brooklyn Bridge
February 13, 2008
Standing underneath the Brooklyn Bridge is like standing underneath a lot of other bridges in that i always expect a 4×8 foot sheet of 1″ thick steel to break free and come crashing down… (that’s cause i live in san francisco and that’s happened a few times around here). you might figure that from that […]
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San Francisco From the Bridge
December 2, 2006
We got the chance to take a walk over the Golden Gate Bridge last weekend. The weather was nice – much nicer than the last time i did it several years ago. I took a bunch of pictures, i think i’ll try to alternate a few in over the next few days, mixed up with […]
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Queen Mary 2 headed towards port
March 6, 2007
That ferry in the foreground is normally one of the largest ships in the bay (aside from the freighters that come and go all day long). The Queen Mary 2 makes it look like a toy.
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Outside of Pescadero, CA
October 23, 2005
We found this creek running along the road (rt. 84 i think) right in the middle of a redwood grove on the way from 280 to pescadero. After making it through the woods we stopped at my newest most favorite bar. Attached to Duartes this tavern has been there since 1894. So has the jukebox […]
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Zion National Park – The Virgin River
June 14, 2007
We ended up only really being able to stay in Zion for about a day due to some travel restrictions (such as being back at work Monday morning). Luckily we were able to extend our stay several hours longer by choosing to fly home early monday morning rather than Sunday night. Unfortunately that meant more […]
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Frozen Trees at 6000 Feet
April 30, 2007
Saturday was rainy and cold. Sunday morning the sun was broke through the clouds and eventually let the mountain tops show through. There wasn’t any snow in the valley but up at the top everything was encased in snow and ice. By noon there was hardly even any evidence of the previous night’s storm.
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