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  • California Dreaming

    A somewhat late welcome to the most depressing time in California, Fire Season. Today we finally got our first “fire sky” here in the Central Valley. The sun peeps through a dense layer of smoke and throws a beautiful, golden light on things. From a photographer’s point of view, there is no better light. From the…

  • Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees, part two

    Upon closer scrutiny of my photos from Calaveras, however, I did find a couple of photographs that succeeded in showing dogwood flowers in front of the Giant Sequoia.

  • Humboldt County Redwoods and Fern

    This post is about a long hike in a Redwoods forest of Humboldt County, what I took for photography, and my photography settings while there.

  • Chloroplast, the book

    I self-published a photography book based on my “Chloroplast” portfolio using BookWright.

  • Celebrating the sunflower season

    This year I decided to celebrate the sunflower season with a digital art portraying the sequencial wilting of a sunflower. I combined several pictures into one using photoshop layers then I added a stone texture.

  • Monochrome abstractions in Point Reyes

    In this post I show a few examples of abstractions in monochrome, following up with the previous one, which was about abstractions in color.

  • Landscape abstractions in color

    On a trip to Mono Lake I photographed the Tufas in sunset and with the help of Lee color filters, I created a landscape abstraction

  • Lotus photography, William Land Park

    A found Lotus leaves dancing in the wind at the William Land Park in Sacramento, and that was more fun than photographing the flowers in bloom.

  • 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.