Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Young boy looking up at all the names on the wall at the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii

A few days ago I heard something about the experience of having your life flash before your eyes just before you die. I thought to myself, “Gee, I wonder what I’ll remember at that [...]

Picture: Panorama overlooking the Emigrant Wilderness at sunset near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California

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This is another of the images taken from my recent trip to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra Nevada. My buddy who was with me is a big [...]

Picture: Overlooking the Sierra Nevada near Sonora Pass, Tuolumne County, California

This last weekend, my friend Michael Routh, a.k.a. the SmokeChaser and I made a trip up to the Sonora Pass region of the Sierra. This was the first of several trips to the region for my new book project. In scouting the area, not only [...]

Picture: Photographer at work in the High Sierra, near Yosemite, California

Today I turned in the edited manuscript and new chapter introductions for my current… no, wait… make that previous book project.
I’m both proud and honored to announce that I have a brand new book project I’m now working on. This will be my seventh book. [...]

Picture: Hula Dancer doing The Wedding Hula, Paradise Cove Luau, Ko Olina, Oahu, Hawaii

Deep down, we all know it. But our brain likes to fill n the g ps.
Objects that are farther away from us appear smaller. That’s obvious when you’re looking across a landscape toward a distant city or mountain. But the same [...]

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: Sunrise light on cliffs above Drakes Bay, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California

Many of you will recall my numerous mentions here and elsewhere about my latest upcoming book, California; Yesterday & Today, that had originally meant to be published this year. That’s apparently not gonna happen now. The first note of bad trouble [...]

Galen Rowell, Berkeley Hills,

Picture: Wooden deck chair and storm clouds at sunset over Lake Bomoseen, near Rutland, Berkshire region, Vermont

This is it. One last post…
I don’t get a vacation this holiday weekend. My wife & kids do. They’re enjoying a weekend in the Sierra at my Sister-in-Law’s cabin near Arnold. I already took my vacation in Hawaii.
This weekend [...]

Picture: The US Flag and the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.

Seeing as how this is the 4th of July weekend, a big Holiday here in the United States where we celebrate the birth of our country, born out of the Revolutionary War, I thought a picture of the US Flag would be [...]