Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Rainbow over Polynesian motif wood carving, Paradise Cove, Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. In fact, I say it just about every time I’m teaching somebody or some group about photography, or giving one of my workshop presentations.

A boring subject in great light will usually make for a [...]

Picture: Dark storm clouds over Balanced Rock at sunset, Arches National Park, Utah

Chicken Little said, “The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!”
I just saw that stock photo industy guru, Jim Pickerell wrote in his newsletter, “Selling Stock”:
“The stock photo industry is in turmoil. Never in more than 30 years I have been involved [...]

Picture: The end of the rainbow over trees & forest in a valley near Hat Creek, Lassen County, California

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I took this image last fall after leaving the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in remote Lassen County. I saw the rainbow starting to form, and chased it down on one of [...]

“Spirits in the Air” – Cloud rising into blue sky, Eastern Sierra, near Bishop, California
It’s hard to explain; yesterday I spent an hour at the Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop. It was the first time I’ve been there in years, and only the second time that I’ve been there since the plane crash that killed [...]

Picture: X-15 NASA Experimental Rocket Plane and storm clouds, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, near Mojave, California.

How do you deal with photographic disappointment? What happens when you go after a shot with a certain set of expectations, and then you are totally foiled in your attempts to get that shot?
I faced these questions [...]

Picture: Sun peeking below clouds near sunset over Angel Island and the San Francisco Bay, from the Berkeley Hills, California

It’s November, right? Only a week or so before Thanksgiving, or so the calendar leads me to believe. But outside is a different story here in the Bay Area. We’re having a post-Indian Summer summer. The [...]

Picture: Dark gray rain storm clouds at sunset over free open range lands, Wyoming.

Here in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, I often explain to our out of state visitors that we really only have two seasons; Wet & Dry. When the rain stops in late spring or early summer, it is highly unusual to see [...]

Picture: Red clouds at sunset over Lake Tahoe, California

“Oh my God; Look at that light!” That’s usually what I am welping like a wounded dog when I see something that looks photographically fantastic, yet I have no camera.
I was in Lake Tahoe for the weekend, with my wife, and without our kids. Even though [...]

Picture: A ray of bright sunlight through dark storm clouds, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
Here in the US, we’ve had a very rough week with our financial markets going into a seemingly dark abyss, and the scent of crisis and fear is spreading across the land. Listening to the news, it was very easy [...]

Photo: Clouds shroud the summit of the Grand Teton at sunrise, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

No more sneak peeks at new galleries. If you check the home page of my web site, you’ll see that the recent galleries that I’ve posted here under the sneak peeks are all now linked for public access. The galleries [...]