The planet Mercury was visible passing across the face of the sun, as seen from earth, on May 9, 2016. The site timeanddate.com helped predict when the mercury… Read More »Mercury Transit of the Sun, May 9, 2016
Natural Bridge You may have noticed that I’m obsessed with death. Death Valley National Park, that is! I grew up in New England, just about… Read More »More Photos from Death Valley in April
Water vapor condenses on the wing of an F-15C from the 144th Fighter Wing of the +Air National Guard in Fresno I’ve encountered jets in this canyon… Read More »Photograph Jets Close in Death Valley
Shell Creek Road is a rural road running north – south between CA – 58 and CA – 46, passing pastures and rolling hills that… Read More »Shell Creek Road Wildflowers
When exploring wines produced with various different grapes, it can take years of experimentation to sample enough wines with dinners to get a good feel… Read More »Wineries to Look For at Hospice du Rhone Walla Walla, April 24-27, 2024
One of my favorite photography road trips ever was a tour of California wildflower sites in the spring, including Antelope Valley and the California State… Read More »California Wildflower Sites: Antelope Valley
If you missed the Death Valley “super bloom”, don’t worry, many other areas in the state bloom next. Along California’s Central Coast, Figueroa Mountain can… Read More »Figueroa Mountain Wildflowers Are Blooming Now
In short, where you are on earth rotates around to the front of the Earth’s path through space at midnight, so the sky above you… Read More »Why Are Meteors More Frequent After Midnight?
With modest enrollment, the participants have elected to make this a camping-based trip, so we can stay closer to where we want to shoot, and… Read More »Death Valley Wildflower Workshop This Week
Milky Way rising behind the Standard Mill in Bodie, California Continuing the retrospective look at my last decade of travel and landscape photography, 2006 –… Read More »Top 10 Travel Photos: 2014