Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Spray from waves crashing on coastal rocks at sunset along the Lost Coast at Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California
It always feels like a reason to celebrate when I get through processing a bunch of RAW images from a recent trip. Last night, I finished processing the images from my trip to the Northern California [...]

Picture: Some big ugly flaw on my sensor after the camera hits the ground.

So there I am, standing along the bank of the Eel River in Humboldt County. I was close to wrapping up my trip along that section of the coast, and was shooting the Avenue of the Giants. My camera was on [...]

Picture: Evening light over waves and rocks on sand beach at the Historic District of Crystal Cove State Park, Newport Beach, Orange County coast, California

I just returned from a nine day trip to the Southern California Coast, specifically to areas of San Diego and Orange Counties. This was an unusual trip, in that I returned [...]

Picture: Mountain bikers on trail through Los Penasquitos Open Space Preserve, San Diego, California

I’ve been enjoying my time in San Diego for a very odd reason. The weather continues to be stuck in an early summer “June Gloom” rut. This means that there is a thick blanket of coastal fog that rolls in and obscures [...]

Isn’t that what you’re tempted to ask when you see someone you think you recognize, but you’re not sure from when or where? “Hey, Don’t I know you from somewhere?” In fact, now that I think about it, that would make a great pick-up line at a bar. (Yes, I have used it at a [...]

Picture: Cast of Bigfoot foot, on display at the Bigfoot Museum, Willow Creek, California
I can’t say I’m a true believer that there are families of Bigfeet walking around the forests of the Western United States. However, while working on my current book project, I thought it might be fun to take a detour of the [...]

I received a gift from the techno-gods. It’s a gift I had hoped for, asked for, but never expected to actually happen.
I recently talked about the recent server migration my host made me go through. I’d been putting the migration off for well over a year, waiting for them to work out some bugs. [...]

Picture: Pickup truck driving on a long straight rolling hills country road at sunrise, near Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara County, California
Sometimes you just have a feeling about a photo as you’re taking the shot. For instance, knowing it would make for a perfect cover photo.
Cover photos are usually not the perfect composition you’d normally [...]