Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Merced River and El Capitan seen from the Gates of the Valley in Winter, Yosemite National Park, California

Today marks the turn of another year. For me, it’s twice in the last three years where I’ve spent the week between Christmas and New Years sick as a dog. C’est la Vie. But the down time [...]

Picture: Buffalo grazing in snow frosted meadow near a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

I just want to wish everyone a peaceful and happy holiday season. I think it would be wonderful if we could all wake up to a world that seems as calm and gentle as this scene depicts.
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In passing on a bit of pure social trivia, MSNBC reported on the year’s most common web searches as listed by Yahoo & Google.
Most common search on Google for 2008: Barack Obama
Most common search on Yahoo for 2008: Brittney Spears
Says something, doesn’t it?

I love the end of the year season, when we get all the “Year in Pictures” features. The Boston Globe’s BIG PICTURE has posted the first of a three part series. It is an amazing, graphic, and not so easy to look at feature. But it is a powerful display of how photography defines and [...]

Photo: Lupine wildflowers in bloom and sunset light over Pewetole Island, Trinidad State Beach, Humboldt County, California
I never knew this place had a name in all the years I lived in Humboldt while attending college. I only found out about the Yurok Indian name while researching captions for my upcoming book, Backroads of the California [...]

My Holiday Newsletter for 2008 went out to my mailing list this week. If you aren’t on my list and would like to receive future newsletters, you can sign up here. If you missed this year’s newsletter, or if it accidentally got filtered into your spam or junk mail folder, you can read the newsletter [...]

I’ve been busy building and rebuilding a few new galleries, and a new Home page. You can click on the image below to get a first live look at the new home page, and the links to the new galleries.

The biggest change I’ve been meaning to make all year, but was delayed due to book [...]

Dateline Dec 1st, 2008; Nikon announces the release of the newest flagship body of their DSLR camera bodies, the D3x. Hitting the streets with 24.4 MP and an approximate retail value of $8,000.00+, you can bet there will be some talk comparing the pros and cons between this model, the older D2x (which I [...]