Category: Land and dreamscapes
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Marine layer, Rodeo Beach
Long exposure photography on a foggy morning at the Marin Headlands. It is finally raining in the Central Valley of California!
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The sunset of my trip and file workflow – Another sunset from Pedra de Itaipava (Petrópolis, Brazil)
The days end in sunsets and my trip to Brazil ended with a long airplane flight back to the USA. If you think that flying internationally could not get any worse, think again, with a mask on. On a previous post, Sunset, Pedra de Itaipava, I shared a sunset photograph…
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A view from Morro do Bonet, Rocio (Petrópolis, Brazil)
This post is about a black and white landscape taken from Morro do Bonet, Rocio, RJ, Brazil, a view often dominated by fog.
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Maria Comprida from Morro da Mensagem (Petrópolis, Brazil)
This post is about Maria Comprida, a mountain peak that dominates the landscape view from Itaipava (Petrópolis, Brazil), and which is a good subject for black and white photography.
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Sunset, Pedra de Itaipava (Itaipava’s Rock), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This post is about a sunset taken at Pedra de Itaipava (Petrópolis, Brazil), during a long hike and with minimal equipment.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…