Climbers – Yosemite High Country
September 19, 2006
We stayed up at one of the Yosemite High Camps this past weekend – May Lake to be specific – highly recommended. Tour buses and the tourists that go along with them never really make it out of the vally. At 10,000 feet they’re a distant memory. The camp was great and there are 4 […]
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YNP: On top of Yosemite Falls
April 28, 2005
This is what Yosemite looks like at the top. My little GPS thingy said we were at 6666.something feet +/-26 feet. If you look carefully in the background of this picture you can see evidence that we weren’t the only people to make it to the top. In fact there were a variety of people […]
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Down along Route 1 – Just North of Big Sur
March 23, 2007
I’m not done with my Joshua Tree stuff yet, i just had to change subjects for a day or so so i can catch up with my scanning. On the way back up the coast on Sunday we stopped for a few minutes at an overlook to Bixby Bridge right as the sun was setting […]
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Jeremy – Golden Gate Park
July 24, 2006
Sorry there hasn’t been anything new in a while – been busy etc… i’m just getting through some things from the last couple of weeks. I’ll try to post the rest of this series over the course of this week. It’s been a while since we all got together in the park. Hot days, bocce […]
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Catherine Gets Attacked Near The Golden Gate Bridge
December 5, 2005
Today is Catherine’s special post! Dear sweet Catherine! who will turn 30 at the end of the month! The last time she came to California i toted her around the coast and made her pose for pictures in front of all of the tourist attractions. It was a great time. When will the next time […]
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Half Dome in the Freezing Fog
February 27, 2008
The fog has just started filling the valley. Standing there it feels like the temperature drops 25 degrees over the course of just a couple of minutes. In the distance the Yosemite Valley Shuttle pulls out of Curry Village towards Mirror Lake.
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YNP: Burned Trees in the Valley
October 17, 2005
We went out to Yosemite again this weekend. I don’t know what it is but no matter how much i’ve tried i always end up taking pictures of half-dome. It’s an amazing thing, but i’ve been trying to find other items of note in the valley. This weekend found the leaves about one to two […]
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Mountain Spring II – Trinidad CA
December 3, 2007
I don’t really know what to say about this one… i like the way the running water in the background plays off of what i think is a large tree root. Either that or laws of gravity aren’t working as expected. The moss that covered every surface short of the running water was quite impressive […]
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Snow Melt: The Merced River in Spring
May 20, 2008
Late last year I decided that i was going to participate in National Solo Photo Book Month an excellent project organized by Paul Butzi. I spent a good deal of time over the coming months brainstorming on topics and coming up with several ideas that i thought could be successful. What once had been a […]
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Joshua Tree Cactus
March 20, 2007
At one end of Joshua Tree the landscape is covered by Joshua Trees. The other end has hardly any Joshua Trees at all and cactus and other desert brush cover the endless expanse of sand. There wasn’t much rain this year so the blossoms weren’t as prevalent as they have been in years past. I […]
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Along the Embarcadero
April 7, 2005
In the closest lane is a beautiful MUNI hybrid bus. (You can’t really see it because it’s in stealth mode)In the background, obscured by the palm tree is the Gap building. This is the birth place of all things somewhat trendy. Sometimes near there there’s an awful smell eminating from the drains. Turns out it’s […]
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Near SFO – November 05
January 10, 2006
That concrete part at the bottom wasn’t supposed to be there. I’m going to blame my prism, which seems to have frame coverage of about 85% so there’s always a little… surprise.
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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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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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I Still Can’t Find the Right Pen
April 16, 2005
The Ferry Building is pretty much right across the street from where i work. Since i spend more of my waking time at work you could say that I spend most of my time looking at the ferry building, which is not necessarily a bad thing (The ferry building part) I was trying to capture […]
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Merced River: Surging Water
June 30, 2008
There are places that you can stand along the banks of the river where the trees and rocks can’t obscure your view of the river. If you ignore your peripheral vision and focus on what’s right in front of you the flowing river can take on new and different forms. This is what I tend […]
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Somewhere Along The Big Oak Flat Entrance to Yosemite
March 14, 2006
Far in the distance, upper-right center: Bridal Veil Falls (from yet another angle).
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Mt Lassen State Park – Kings Creek
July 8, 2007
We took a hike down Kings Creek in Mt Lassen State Park. We were there during the last weekend in May and there was still snow all over the place with several roads through the park closed down. I made this picture by jumping over the stream and onto a small island in the middle. […]
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Fallen Tree Stump near May Lake – YNP
September 23, 2007
This is the stump of a fallen tree, the part that when the tree was healthy and living was facing directly downwards. The size of it is immense. I remember last year joking that it would make a great fireplace mantle as it’s about 12 feet wide and 8 feet tall. The complexity of the […]
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Giant Concrete Cross – Mount Davidson
April 10, 2005
The second thing that’s up here is a giant concrete cross It’s kind of strange – as you walk up the hill to the summit of Mount Davidson (summit because it’s the highest point in San Francisco) you’re in a state park. The area surrounding the cross though, it’s made abundantly clear, is owned by […]
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