Favorite iPhone Images from 2020
It’s that time of year to review last year and confirm a course for the next one. Are there places I should go more or… Read More »Favorite iPhone Images from 2020
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Favorite Images Captured in 2020
The year started our innocuously enough, with a quick trip to Death Valley (below) to enjoy water on the Badwater Salt Flats, and another trip… Read More »Favorite Images Captured in 2020
Weather This Week At Topaz Lake
Woke up to 12″ of snow on the ground outside my house, about 8″ down at the lake. It continued to snow off and on… Read More »Weather This Week At Topaz Lake
The Mono Lake 2021 Calendar is Now Available!
The Mono Lake Committee’s annual calendar is better than ever for 2021. I’m entirely biased though, because they put one of my photos on the… Read More »The Mono Lake 2021 Calendar is Now Available!
Slink Fire Update
The Slink Fire left Slinkard Valley yesterday and came over the hills to burn above the towns of Coleville and Walker last night. It was… Read More »Slink Fire Update
Bodie – Nevada Ghost Town Night Photography Workshop
It was a busy schedule with Yosemite for practice, then Bodie and multiple mining areas in Nevada to explore, but here are some initial images… Read More »Bodie – Nevada Ghost Town Night Photography Workshop
Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator
For quite some time astrophotographers have used a program called Deep Sky Stacker to align and combine multiple starry images and create a better result.… Read More »Stacking Starry Night Landscapes With Sequator
Flickr Updates Its Explore Algorithm
Explore is Flickr’s automated attempt to show you “the most awesome photos on Flickr.” Explore showcases 500 photos per day, said to be about 0.005%… Read More »Flickr Updates Its Explore Algorithm
February Workshop in Death Valley
With the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ocean heat and weather pattern close to “on” since spring 2019, there was a reasonable chance that we’d… Read More »February Workshop in Death Valley
Will There Be a 2020 Super Bloom in Death Valley?
About the possibility of a wildflower “super bloom” in Death Valley in 2020… There HAS been a great quantity of moisture in some areas of… Read More »Will There Be a 2020 Super Bloom in Death Valley?