Picture: Trees at sunset, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California I’d really love it if you’d leave a comment with your thoughts, personal preferences, or any feedback in general on the following: I’ve been struggling with my own Border War. I’m not talking between countries, and it’s not the TV Show on the NGS [...]

Picture: Panorama looking out over the Mission District from Delores Park, San Francisco, California Click on the photo to see the image larger. I mentioned in my last blog post that I’d been working on a pretty big image. The 10×80′ panorama of redwood trees was the largest print ever made of one of my [...]

Picture: Redwood forest panorama, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, California Click on the photo to see the image larger. I may have previously mentioned in passing that I was working on a pretty big image. Earlier this year I met with a design team working on a project for a new hotel. I was [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Mount Lassen above Lake Helen, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California I’m inviting all photographers who are interested and would like to see their work possibly published in a book to submit images for a book project I’m working on about photographing in Northern California. Let’s just get all the ugly business [...]

Picture: Early Morning Solitude; Fisherman on dock at dawn, Lafayette Reservior, Lafayette, California What was the first picture you sold? (Yes, for real-live money…) This was mine, with all thanks going to my wife, Connie, who convinced me to go out that day. It was 6:00am on a cool December morning. I looked out of [...]

Picture: El Capitan and Half Dome during a late winter sunset, Yosemite National Park, California This week I had a potential client call and ask about a portfolio image similar to the one above. He asked about having Half Dome lighter. I gave him an example of how (IMHO) poorly trying to lighted Half Dome [...]

Picture: Sunset along the green hills of Bolinas Ridge in Spring, Mount Tamalpais State Park, Marin County, California Two things caused me to post this image today. First, I’ve been following a discussion about the ‘history’ of (over)saturated color landscape photography on David Leland Hyde’s weblog. The second factor is that I was pulling together [...]

Picture: Outdoor fireplace in courtyard at the Hotel Cheval, Paso Robles, California Many people think that being a travel photographer on assignment must be a dream job. Certainly it is in some ways, getting paid to travel to fun places and take pictures. Over this last week I had the opportunity to photograph parts of [...]

Picture: Redbud reflection along the Merced River, California. Photo Courtesy and © Michael Frye Over the recent New Year’s holiday, I had a chance to read the new e-book, Light & Land; Landscapes in the Digital Darkroom, by veteran landscape and Yosemite photographer, Michael Frye. Published as part of the Craft and Vision titles by [...]

Picture: High Tension Power Transmission Lines and Towers in the local hills, near Martinez, California After taking time this year to move my office and catch up on a number of back-burner home & office projects, and the hell that was last year, I’m slowly starting to de-lurk and poke my head back in a [...]