Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Interior of the Iron Door Saloon, est. 1852; the oldest continuously operating saloon in the state, Groveland, California
I admit my frustration level has been met and exceeded. For nearly a decade working with Galen Rowell, running his stock department, I dealt with clients of every level, including editors at just about every major [...]

Picture: Injured sea lion behind cage fence, Marine Mammal Rescue Center, California.
The other day, I took my kids out to the site of the old Sutro Baths, near the Cliff House. After climbing down the stairway toward the beach, we saw a bunch of people gathered in a spot, looking at a baby sea [...]

Picture: Tourist family photos being taken by mom while kids stand at the center of the Four Corners Monument, on the Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado borders.

I just heard this on the news… It could only have happened in the days before GPS. Yes, I’ve been there. Yes, I now feel ripped off and [...]

Thanks to my friend Ross for sending me this. Photographer David Bergman as at President Obama’s Inauguration. And he’s got a stitched image from a Gigapan Imager to prove it. His image is made up of 220 Canon G10 photos, and measures approx. 60,000 x 25,000 pixels. Yep, it’s got some serious detail.
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Almost everyone knows the enduring photographic portrait that gave a feeling and a face to the Great American Depression. It’s simply titled, “Migrant Mother”, and was an image taken by Dorothea Lange while she was working for the US Government, documenting migrant farm workers. That face now has a name; she was Florence Owens Thompson. [...]

Picture: Kids walking in an outdoor labyrinth, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California
This is the first time in more than 15 years I ever shot anything based on a standard want list photo request. Earlier this summer, a regional magazine had posted a request for various outdoor labyrinths. One of the locations they listed [...]

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 [...]

Picture: Female Japanese tourists looks out over the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River toward Lower Upper Yellowstone Fall, Yeloowestone National Park, Wyoming

In my last post I mentioned that I’d been deeply engrossed in working my way through a number of projects this Winter & Spring. One of those was processing all of the RAW image [...]

Photo: Tourists taking photos of coastal redwood trees (Sequoia Sempervirens) from path in Muir Woods National Monument, Marin County, California

100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill creating what is now Muir Woods National Monument. This is truly one of the great must see places in the Bay Area for many tourists. Known for [...]

Photo: Patron reading books at City Lights Bookstore, North Beach, San Francisco, California
Right or Wrong? Stealing, borrowing, retribution, ease, or simply, “everybody does it.” Where would you fall on the morality scale?? Examlpe, you check out a book or a CD from a public library. You make 5 copies that you give to [...]