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  • Wild Horse Photography in Public Lands

    In this post I talk about a trip I did to photograph wild horses in Mono Lake, California, in the beginning of June, 2021.

  • Beyond Sacramento’s Colorful Murals

    During a walk to see Sacramento’s murals, I became aware of the beautiful and meaningful work of Gale Filter, a local photographer who portais homeless people, sometimes including the city’s colorful murals.

  • Ocean Waves at Point Reyes

    I was proud that I was able to have a good time and photograph at Point Reyes despite a missing item for long exposure. Not so proud to find out, when I got home, that the item had been inside my backpack all along

  • Give me Something to Fight About

    Is there any issue in photography, not mentioned above, that you would be willing to argue about?

  • Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees

    “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” Popular saying.  On Mother’s Day, May 8th, and on Mon, May 17th, I walked the South Grove Trail at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park with a composition on my mind: I wanted a shot of the blooming Pacific Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, against the trunk of a Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum. If you are…

  • The Movement of the Waves

    There are some cliffs at the Rodeo Beach in Marin County from where I like to make abstract photographs of the ocean. The short movie below, taken with my Motorola cell phone, was made from one of those cliffs a few minutes before I took the sequence of images above. I think the movie works…

  • ICM photography at North Table Mountain

    I go to Table Mountain every spring for the wildflowers. This year it was beyond crowded, and since I had photographed the place ad nauseam in the past, I packed light (just my toy camera, the Z50 and its 50 mm dedicated lens). My intention was to enjoy the walk and friends while practicing Intentional Camera Movement…

  • Fading beauty photography

    The Only Constant in Life Is Change.- Heraclitus The other day, after noticing how the flower above had turned into such a wild old lady with the “hair” all messed up, I could not resist making a portrait of it. Aging is a common experience to all of us, and wilting flowers have the power…

  • Casual ICM photography

    ICM photography on a gorgeous morning

  • Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white

    The California poppy is the official state flower and is flowering now in the Central Valley.