County Barn at Sunset
From our last night photography workshop at Bodie State Historic Park on August 30, 2014. I can't wait to go back out in a couple… Read More »County Barn at Sunset
From our last night photography workshop at Bodie State Historic Park on August 30, 2014. I can't wait to go back out in a couple… Read More »County Barn at Sunset
+Ryan Watamura captured this image of the abandoned house where the brother of President Herbert Hoover lived in the late 1800s. Check out more of Ryan's… Read More »Light Painting the Hoover House
My camera was capturing a time-lapse sequence when a ghostly figure drifted into the scene… It turned out to be +Tex Schneider , who had dropped… Read More »Alone
We had another amazing visit to Bodie last weekend. Here are 14 more photos from our night and interior photography workshop. Here's a link to the… Read More »Wild West Ghost Town Last Weekend
I wrote a blog post last week about the opportunity to capture the moon, Mars and Saturn on the evenings of August 30 and 31.… Read More »Mars, Saturn, Moon Conjunction Over Bodie's 1937 Chevy August 30
This is one of the higher elevation places to catch fall colors in California's Eastern Sierra region, so it's one of the earlier places to… Read More »Eastern Sierra Fall Colors Progress, Late September (2012)
No, it wasn't following a chicken. The Milky Way moves from southeast to southwest over the course of the summer, so as you shoot in… Read More »Why Did the Milky Way Cross the Road?
The "Wild West" was epitomized by rough, lawless towns. Many of them were mining towns, and the best surviving example may be Bodie. Preserved as… Read More »The Wild West at Night
I used it a lot in 2008 and before. I avoided it like the plague after I bought a camera with better dynamic range in… Read More »Can HDR Software Finally Produce High Dynamic Range?
Working on my guide book this week, I sent to the layout editor last night the chapter for Joshua Tree National Park. Here's the rest… Read More »Joshua Trees in Hidden Valley