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Salton Sea Sunday Sunset
Sort of. You can see a sliver of the Salton Sea in this sunset, and that’s because my timing for the drive from San Diego to the east side of the Salton Sea was thrown off by some unplanned vehicle maintenance (buying and adding a quart of oil to the engine and topping off the […]
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Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills
My trip to the Alabama Hills last month really inspired me, so I decided to return for the three-day Veterans Day weekend. It was a short trip, but a rewarding one. Saturday’s sunrise wasn’t as spectacular as the one for my trip in October, but decent nonetheless. I also took a little detour up Whitney […]
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Lowest Glow on Earth
I suspect there aren’t many photographers who wouldn’t enjoy trying to capture the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta if they had the time and resources to do so. Smaller scale alternatives can be found. Yesterday, SeaFest, a group organized to promote California’s Salton Sea, organized its first-ever early morning hot air balloon race and an evening hot […]
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Eastern Sierra and Lake Tahoe
The first week of October 2017, I took a long-awaited photographic excursion from San Diego up the eastern Sierra to Lake Tahoe. Visited places included the Alabama Hills, Manzanar National Historic Site, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, June Lake, and Bodie State Historical Park on my way to Lake Tahoe. You can read about the full […]
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San Diego Scenes
Here are a few scenes from in and around my adopted hometown of San Diego, California. I love its diversity—beach, mountains, and desert all within a two-hour drive.
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Cabrillo National Monument
Cabrillo National Monument at the end of Point Loma is one of the first places I’ll take out-of-town guests, with its commanding views of San Diego harbor and the Pacific Ocean, and its history dating back to the arrival of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo on 28 September 1542.
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People
I’m far more comfortable photographing landscapes and travel scenes, but I’ve recently been focusing a bit more on informal and candid portrait photography at events for friends, family, or even work.
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Joshua Tree NP & Mojave National Preserve, 2013
The Joshua trees in 2013 were supposed to be in a “once-in-a-century” bloom, so I hopped in my car and drove up from San Diego to check them out. My timing may have been off a tad, but there were still plenty of blossoms to be seen.
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Coastal Maine
I’ve always loved coastal Maine and this was a great trip back to the region—that is until an approaching hurricane forced me to cut my trip a few days short. Good thing I did. There was significant damage to some of the places I had stayed at just before.
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San Francisco & Yosemite, 2009
I joined my sister and her husband to a trip to two of my favorite places in North America: San Francisco and Yosemite National Park. I don’t think I could tire of returning to either.