Category Archives: Landscapes

Seal Rocks Squared

Above was one of the photos from last weekend’s worldwide photowalk at Sutro Baths in San Francisco.  The photo below is another variation from the same location at Sutro Baths from about two years ago.  Funniest part is that the same photographers were with me for the making of both photographs. This goes to show [...]

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Wildflowers from Eastern Sierra

While I was in the Eastern Sierra Nevada last weekend some patches of wildflowers were still in bloom.  This field of Wild Iris was along the road to Bodie State Historical Park. The closeup of the Iris below was found in another field right off of Highway 395 south of Bridgeport, CA. Despite my primary [...]

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Wildfire Flare Up at Lassen

Back in October of 2005, my wife and I did a driving trip looping around California.  The northern most part of that loop was Lassen Volcanic National Park in Northern California.  While we were there the park rangers warned us about a wildfire in the eastern edge of the park, near Horseshoe Lake.  During our [...]

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Draining Lake Oroville

While driving past Lake Oroville in the Northern Sierra foothills recently, I was taken back by how drastically low the water level was.  On a whim, I pulled off at a public boat launch to take a closer look and was lucky enough to run into a local resident.  Lake Oroville is the second largest [...]

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Table Mountain Wildflowers

Where has the time gone?  Over a week ago a friend and I took the weekend for a photo tour around the North Sierra Foothills.  A large part of the attraction for the area was wildflower season at Table Mountain near Oroville, CA.  Table Mountain is a rather flat lava flow that has developed into [...]

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Borrego Springs Pot of Gold

One of the wonderful things about being in the desert during a rainstorm is the wonderful moody lighting that is created by the storm clouds rolling through.  During this day, a hole in the clouds presented a rainbow that ended right at the town of Borrego Springs.

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