http://www.enlightphoto.com/views Travel, Outdoors, Assignment, and Stock Photography; News & Views. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:19:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picture: Gold miners working hydraulic mining water monitors, blasting away at a hillside, Nevada County, California; circa 1866 Photo Credit: Library of Congress That history-related book project I've been working on over these last many months is now, as they say, history. I am so delighted to report that as of ... http://www.enlightphoto.com/views/2010/03/09/the-history-thats-history.htm Picture: Old Grave marker headstone (1891) behind old wooden church, Hornitos, Sierra Foothills, Mariposa County, California I was brought up believing it's not polite to dance on the grave of your enemy. Yet, I must admit that news last week had me wondering if I could get away with ... http://www.enlightphoto.com/views/2010/03/01/its-not-polite-to-dance-on-a-grave.htm Picture: Overview of the Marin County Watershed as seen from Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California I can understand why they're upset. Marin County is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's more affluent regions. The normal cursory thought of "Well, they can afford it" would usually draw little attention. Yet my ... http://www.enlightphoto.com/views/2010/02/25/the-wrong-lesson.htm Picture: High desert sage at sunrise in the Great Basin, near Wells, Nevada I spent the bulk of last week in Reno, Nevada, attending the 2010 Annual Summit Conference for the North American Nature Photography Association. Considering I had a book deadline coming up this next week, it was ... http://www.enlightphoto.com/views/2010/02/23/back-from-nanpa-2010.htm Picture: Sunset over an empty stretch of Highway 50 "the loneliest Highway in America" in the high desert of Central Nevada. I've gone into a bit of a self-inflicted hermit mode while working on my current book project deadline. However, I want to let everyone know that I will be poking ... http://www.enlightphoto.com/views/2010/02/11/meet-me-at-nanpa-in-reno-next-week.htm