Category Archives: Travel

Maidu Indian Grinding Mortars

One of the advantages to the low water level at Lake Oroville is the exposure of some Californian Indian artifacts that are usually 50 feet below water.  The divots that you see on the right hand side were created by the Maidu Indians who inhabited this part of California for the past 2000 years.  These [...]

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My Favorite Photos of 2009

Here it is only a few days into 2010 and 2009 seems like such a distance memory.  Luckily working through all my photos from 2009 to choose these favorites helped rekindle my memories of the year just past (just like when I chose my favorites of 2008).  Below are twelve favorites from the past year [...]

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Happy Holidays

Wishing you and yours a wonderful and happy holidays! The above was taken on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago a few days ago. My holiday’s started off in downtown Chicago and continues through the new year visiting family in Wisconsin. The ramp up to the Holidays was extremely busy for me with closing out quarter [...]

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Photo: Site Seeing is So Tiring

Sometimes The Decisive Moment can sneak up on you when you’re not expecting it.  But, if you’re photographic instincts are sharp, you’ll be able to react quickly enough.  While driving through downtown Victoria recently we passed in frong of the Empress hotel and I caught this image out the corner of my eye.  I simply [...]

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Photo: Roman Work Day

I was digging through my archive looking for some specific photos from Rome for a client when I stumbled across this gem.  One of those moments where you’re tired from playing tourist all day and so you grab a seat in the shade to just take in the show for a while.  And along walks [...]

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Photo: Clouds Shrouded Ribbon Fall (Yosemite)

While in Yosemite Valley I was surprised to find that I had cell phone coverage.  Just after taking this photo I shot out a quick tweet with a version of this taken on my iPhone camera as I thought this was going to be the best photo of my trip.  While the iPhone version doesn’t [...]

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