Picture: Jet airplane with contrail flying through high cirrus clouds and a rainbow known as a circumzenithal arc, in the skies above Lake Tahoe, Nevada Back in 2005, after 15 years of shooting professional transparency film, I entered the digital era when I purchased my first DSLR, which at the time was Nikon’s first high-end [...]

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: A break in the storm at sunrise over Lake Alpine, Alpine County, California Now that we’re officially into the New Year of 2012, (and according to some, potentially earth’s last year – if you believe in the ancient Mayan calendar) there’s no better time for this; The very first thing I want to do [...]

Picture: Storm clouds at sunrise in the Whiskeytown Shasta Trinity National Recreation Area, near Redding, California You know it’s been a busy time when you suddenly look back and realize you’ve never even processed a few of your favorite images that you’ve taken over the last year. Such is the case with the above image [...]

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: Lightning bolt in forest near the Sierra Buttes, Northern Sierra, California This is one of those posts you write knowing your wife and mother aren’t gonna be too thrilled. Last week, the Sierra saw some very strong afternoon thunderstorms move across the Range of Light. My buddy, Michael Routh and I had ascended to [...]

Picture: Storm clouds in evening roll over Battery Point Lighthouse, Crescent City, Del Norte County coast, California I had a chance to shoot this lighthouse last month while working along California’s beautiful North Coast & Redwood region. I previously had a number of images I shot of this lighthouse either in my portfolio, published in [...]

Picture: Cumulonimbus storm cloud over pond and forest, Crescent City, California As some of you may know, I’ve been away for the last few weeks, venturing throughout northern California. I’ve been to Yosemite, The Redwoods, and visited numerous waterfalls in the northern part of the state. The over-riding theme of this period in my coverage [...]