Picture: Waxing gibbous moon and companion. Yesterday evening I stepped outside our kitchen door, and what to my wandering eye should appear, but the moon hanging high in the sky. The light of a brilliant star shone nearby. Having taken an astronomy class back in college, I knew by the brightness of this heavenly companion [...]

Picture: Moonset at dawn from Taft Point, with El Capitan in background, Yosemite National Park, California There’s something incredibly joyful about having a place like this all to yourself. First of all, it’s quiet. (Kind of like this blog over the last few weeks.) My friend and I drove to the trailhead on Glacier Point [...]

Picture: “Balance this!” – Full moon setting over mountain ridge along the Sierra crest, near Tioga Pass, Eastern Sierra, California In photojournalism, the first thing you learn is “The Moment is Key.” The meaning of this is simple. If you don’t have an image that tells a story or reveals a peak moment in the [...]

Picture: Owl perched on top of Cape Mendocino Lighthouse, and crescent moon in evening light, Shelter Cove, on the Lost Coast, Humboldt County, California This is my “light at the end of the tunnel” photo, in regards to my current book project. This weekend I uploaded my collection of images for the publisher to begin [...]

Picture: Evening light and nearly full moon over the Oakland – San Francisco Bay Bridge, and San Francisco Bay, from the Embarcadero, San Francisco, California This week I gave a private workshop to clients working along the San Francisco Embarcadero. One great challenge of this workshop, was that for reasons we won’t discuss here, the [...]

Picture: Waning Gibus Moon over rock pinnacle on the rim of Yosemite Valley in pre-dawn light, Yosemite National Park, California Tuesday nights are “Pool Nite” (as in billiards) for me. It’s my current form of therapy and stress relief, as well as one of the few other things I consider myself fairly decent at. Mind [...]

Picture: Moonrise in evening over road through vineyards in the Carneros Region, Napa Valley Wine Country, Napa County, California I’d like to announce the start of a new promotional partnership. Regular readers will know that I have had ‘issues’ with keywording. Over the course of this last year, I began a vendor relationship with a [...]

Picture: Full moon rising through clouds lit by alpenglow at sunset, Desolation Wilderness, near Lake Tahoe, California. Last night I had one of those pure “Doh!” moments. The root cause of this started 24 hours previous on Wednesday evening. I’d been out tending our new garden when I looked up over the trees and saw [...]

Picture: Moonset at sunrise over vineyard in winter, Valley of the Moon, Sonoma County, California This photo has been in my Special California Wine Country Print Portfolio for this last year. But as a seasonal image, I thought this would be a great image to introduce my new 7-page Sonoma Wine Country web gallery. If [...]