Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Hiker and pool of water in narrow canyon, Red Cliffs Recreation Area, near St. George, Utah.
It’s just about the perfect time of year for hikes like these. Not for me, not right now. I’m stuck in illness recovery mode. But my reason for posting this image today is another mini celebration of sorts. [...]

Picture: Sunbeams through storm clouds at Death Valley National Park, California

I’m so bummed; for a couple months I’ve had this week set aside to be down in Death Valley with some friends. Beginning early last week, events started to conspire against me, to the point where I finally had to cancel my trip. As it [...]

Picture: Rows of grape vines in vineyard in Spring, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California.

It’s a bit premature for this year’s harvest, but a glass of wine is definitely in order. Today, I got my full collection of Sonoma Wine Country images fully archived and have started to send them off my agents. A total of [...]

Picture: Non-existant Yosemite Falls, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

This is a postcard photo you don’t see too often. It’s of a completely dry Yosemite Falls. There should be a dramatic white plume of cascading water, but the year when this photo (2001) was taken, the falls ran totally dry due to lack of water [...]

Picture: Clouds shroud a mountain peak near Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Imagine you go to a very scenic location for one day, like when I went to Whistler, BC., and the clouds never part. Bummer, huh? Now imagine you go to your computer to look at some of your photos, and they’re gone…poof. Well if you’re [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Sentinel Rock above Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

This is the photo that I try to keep in mind following my “diapers” incident.
If you’d like to see where this will eventually appear on my web site, feel free to go check out my online Yosemite Photo Gallery.

Busy week on the Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filing front. Viacom, the media mega-giant that owns MTV & VH1 is suing YouTube for unlawful distribution of their copyrighted material. A year ago, this would probably not have happened as YouTube was just another Internet site on the rise. But now, the supreme Internet Diety, Google, owns YouTube, [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Half Dome above Cooks Meadow, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

This picture makes me so angry. Well, it’s not really the picture that makes me angry, but rather the memory that it evokes. Now I think you’d all agree that Yosemite Valley is one of the most beautiful landscapes on the [...]

After my last post, I remembered this image in my files:

So it turns out I did have more photos of dead fish.
Picture: Sad fish on ice, Pikes Place Public Market, Seattle, Washington.

Picture: Dead fish on the shores of the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, near Brawley, California

My buddy and I had pulled off along the side of the road at the edge of the Salton Sea to take some photos of the shoreline. As I walked out toward the water, intrigued by the dry, cracked soil, I [...]