Picture: Clouds streaming off the top of Half Dome in Winter, Cooks Meadow, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California I’d just like to take a moment to wish everyone who celebrates a very Merry Christmas, and for everyone who follows the Gregorian Calendar, a most Wonderful and Prosperous New Year. And for everyone else; I [...]

Picture: Rugged mountain peaks coming out of the clouds along McGee Creek, Eastern Sierra, California You know that feeling you get when you say, “I feel like my head is coming out of the clouds;” – that’s the way I feel right now. It’s a good feeling. I can’t believe it’s almost July, as the [...]

Picture: Stormy sunset over Faith Valley, near Carson Pass, Sierra Nevada, California This last week I sent out my Holiday Newsletter, and announced the addition of a new “New Work” Image Gallery on my web site, along with a new selection of images on the rotating slide show on my Home Page. The New Work [...]

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: 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: Sunset over Yosemite Valley and Half Dome from the summit of Clouds Rest, Yosemite National Park, California Earlier this week I had a chance to fill a long time photographic goal. Of all the hiking and backpacking trips I’ve done throughout the years in Yosemite, I had never been up to Clouds Rest. My [...]

Picture: Dirt road through the Buttermilk Region of the Eastern Sierra, near Bishop, California After having to cut my last trip short, I’m heading back out on the road. My compass needle is currently pointed east toward the Sierra. I’ll try & post a photo or two along the way. Until then, I just want [...]

Picture: Cumulonimbus Thunderstorm cloud building near the summit of the Sierra Buttes, California This is going to be another post that my family isn’t going to like reading; but it makes for excellent blog fodder. As a promised follow-up (read: preamble) to my previous two lightning related posts: My Buddy Michael had already bolted off [...]

Picture: Lightning bolt striking the Sierra Buttes reflected in Packer Lake, Sierra County, California In my last post, “Dancing with Zeus and Thor” I described an encounter with the power of a summertime Sierra thunderstorm, and capturing a bolt of lightning that hit around a quarter mile or so from where we were standing. Earlier [...]

Picture: Last light of sunset on the summit of Half Dome as seen from Olmsted Point, Tioga Pass Road, Yosemite National Park, California I just got back from a week-long family vacation at Lake Tahoe. However, before posting anything from that trip, I have one more story I want to tell about my recent Yosemite [...]