This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Foggy Field Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. I’ve always found it fascinating that nature can be so complex, yet so simple. Fog has a magical way of making this observation come to life. The rolling coastal hills of California provide a great space to explore on cold foggy mornings. Seemingly

This past week I enjoyed some time in Yosemite National Park just after the first wave of a large winter storm swept through.  Conditions on the ground were perfect for winter photography, but a bit cold for the average Californian I think. The outlook from Tunnel View is often photographed, but the view is so beautiful it is really difficult to avoid taking a photo here. Yosemite is really a magical place in the win

Cell phone photography is exploding in use these days. As our ability to take photographs becomes easier, so too does the inadvertent spread of our personal information. Devices such as the iPhone automatically embed GPS data into EXIF data of its photos. Uninformed use of certain social media sites / image hosting services can result in the inadvertent spread of personal information such as your approximate home add

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Sunset Surf Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. Seeing that so many are enduring stormy winter weather these days I thought it might be nice to share a warmer view, sunset at Ocean Beach here in San Francisco. If you’re enduring drab winter weather perhaps this will brighten your week.  Enjoy. C

You might not think photographing a picnic table would be all that interesting, but at night White Sands National Monument looks like a moonscape. The gray and blue tones look very moon-like and in combination with the Frank Lloyd Wright inspired picnic shelters you feel like you’re awaiting a shuttle back to Earth. Fortunately for me there were no run ins with Marvin the Martian. [tags]photography, stock photo

This Weeks Friday Freebie iPad Wallpaper: Anemones & Pebbles Friday Freebie features an image to liven up your iPad display with images from my travels… all for free. If you’re into macro photography there are few things that beat exploring a tide-pool. Some time ago I posted the original version of Anemone & Pebbles just after I picked up my Canon 1Ds Mark III. The detail in the photo blew me awa

This is one of my favorite skyline photographs of downtown San Francisco. The pre-dawn light in combination with the glow of the buildings across downtown made for a special capture. As it turns out over the years this has been a favorite of others who have visited my web site as well. First featured on my web site in 2004 as part of my San Francisco Labyrinths write-up it’s been viewed hundreds of thousands of

If you ever want to see the desert come alive just spend some time there at night. This is true in relation to wildlife activity and finding a new take on landscape subjects.  We are diurnal by nature so it is very easy to look past what unique lighting can be found at night. The desert offers so many great subjects rich textures, wildlife, expansive landscapes, unique plant life, etc. and all of it looks completely