Gary Crabbe / Enlightened Images

Picture: Fresh snow on tree branches in Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

I just heard the weatherman on the radio say, “only three more days until Winter.” It’s so odd that last week we had the lowest, longest-lasting snowfall in the San Francisco Bay Area in many many years. Today the weather was approaching [...]

Picture: Canyon walls in evening light from Point Sublime, North Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Another new image gallery has been posted on to my web site. Given the title of this post, and the photo immediately above, I guess it won’t come as any surprise when I announce that this new image gallery is [...]

File this one under: “The universe ain’t big enough for the two of us…”
Picture: Moving rock at sunrise on the Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, California
Twice in the last few trips I’ve taken, I’ve had my personal space invaded when all around me there was nothing but empty space. I guess that [...]

Photo: Tourist overlooking Badwater and the Panamint Mountains at sunrise, Dante’s View, Death Valley National Park, California

It was a long time coming; almost eight full months. As I drove, I kept hearing that old cowboy song reverbarating over and over in my head, “Back in the Saddle Again, Yes I’m back in the Saddle again.” [...]

Picture: Sunset light on the peaks above Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite National Park, California
One of my photographer friends, Guy Tal, posted on his blog, er… web journal, yesterday that he was perhaps one of the last people to ride the photographic coat tails of Ken Burns’ recent PBS documentary film series on the [...]

Picture: Sunlight on cliff formations inside the Grand Canyon, from the South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

OK, by saying “cutting through”, I suppose I should have posted an image that at least had the Colorado River in it, since it’s actually the river that cuts through the Grand Canyon. I meant a more photographer-literal [...]

Picture: Layers of the land as seen in the late afternoon from Lipan Point, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

It’s been a couple days now since I got home from the Grand Canyon. I’m still playing Daddy Day-Care for the remainder of this week, which explains the delay in my posting this.
I wanted to [...]

Picture: Rainbow and sunlight from the South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Pop Quiz; What’s the most obvious vacation spot to go to after you’ve already fallen off a cliff once this year. A: The Grand Canyon, of course! That’s right, my psycho brain has determined that my ideal vacation spot that calls out to [...]

Picture: Sunset light on Cathedral Peak reflected in Upper Cathedral Lake, Yosemite National Park, California
Last night I was up until nearly 3:00am working. One of the long overdue items on my “to do” list was to upgrade my wordpress installation of this weblog. Lately when I’ve been talking about long overdue, it’s been [...]

Picture: Sunset light on the face of Half Dome, from Olmsted Point, Yosemite National Park, California.

In my last two blog posts, I reported on the mediocre quality of images used by Travel & Leisure Online for their Best Views from US National Parks feature, and the subsequent post when it was discovered that one of [...]