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 [...]

Starting earlier this Spring, while I was wrapping up the delivery on my last book project, my loving wife took on the task of coordinating the construction of my new office. This wasn’t really about me or my office needs, as it was about my son needing his own room as he enters into his [...]

Picture: My wife, Connie, and daughter, Alyssa in Hawaii.

Twenty-nine and a few extra years ago, the universe graced this planet with the birth of the woman who would become my wife, life partner, and soul mate. I consider that to be my greatest present, on this 28th day of July. I hope you’ll bear with [...]

Galen Rowell, Berkeley Hills,

Picture: The Embarcadero Office Tower at Four Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California

Since I did a last post from my old office, it should be fitting to make a first post from my new office. After days of dedicated moving and cleaning over the Fourth of July holiday, I’m delighted to say that I’m fully moved [...]

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: My wife, Connie.

Readers of this weblog know that I very rarely ever use this space for expressing personal items, or even more rarely, political opinions. Today, I make an exception on a personal note. I want to publicly tell my wife, Connie, how much I love her, and thank her with all my heart [...]

Gopher poking head out of ground burrow, Redwood Regional Park, Berkeley Hills, California

Photographer Jack Hollingsworth is very popular in the twitter-verse and social media circles. He has recently been posting a number of excellent weblog articles using the title premise, “I am…“. I thought I would take a moment to ride his coattails and proudly [...]

Picture: Campfire Detail, Somewhere in Oregon

Every year the Burning Man event is held in the Nevada desert. Every year I want to attend. Every year I read their policy and restrictions regarding photography taken on-site. Every year I think, “What a bunch of hypocrites.” Every year, I’ve chosen not to go for that reason.
“Written permission [...]

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 [...]