Picture: Snow covered pine trees along road to Echo Summit, near Lake Tahoe, California I got home this weekend from a sixteen day road & hibernation trip. What the heck does that mean? Well, in the middle of those sixteen days, I hibernated all alone in a motel in South Lake Tahoe while a major [...]

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: High above the Pacific Ocean along the steep and rugged hills of the Sonoma County coast, California

Picture: Car driving on suburban street in downtown Pleasant Hill, California. File this one under: Photography is not a crime, or “Are you by chance a little paranoid?” After all, it was the British rock group, The Kinks, who reminded us that paranoia is The Destroyer. Not long ago I stopped into a local camera [...]

Picture: Rainbow over the “Meat & Potatoes Palace”, near Hat Creek, California (A play off Galen Rowell’s famous photo, Rainbow over the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.) I love coming home after being on the road for more than a few days. Returning home to my wife and kids is always it’s own reward, as [...]

Picture: “Drill Now” oil banner hanging from front porch of affluent home with a Hummer SUV parked in front, Corona Del Mar, Southern California On my recent trip to Southern California, I came across this scene while in the Newport Beach / Corona del Mar area. Frankly, sometimes I just don’t get the SOCAL mindset. [...]

Picture: Pickup truck driving on a long straight rolling hills country road at sunrise, near Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara County, California Sometimes you just have a feeling about a photo as you’re taking the shot. For instance, knowing it would make for a perfect cover photo. Cover photos are usually not the perfect composition you’d [...]

Picture: Rhododendron flowers bloom under trees along curve on Highway 101, Redwood National Park, Del Norte County, Northern California Reports are in that the wild Rhododendrons are in bloom again along the North Coast. It’s been several years since I’ve been up this way, but I know the area very well. I was lucky enough [...]

Picture: A pair of Recreational Vehicle campers traveling along a desert highway, near Death Valley, California I love to drive. But it’s quite the new reality here in the U.S., with summer fast approaching and record gas prices already here- and still climbing; $3.89 at my local station today, $0.05 higher than last Saturday. I’m [...]

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 [...]