I've always found wine tastings to be a great way to find great wines. I've attended ones focused on zinfandal, pinot noir, Rhone varietal wines,… Read More »International Chardonnay Symposium May 12-14, Pismo Beach
Moving on from PicasaFriday, February 12, 2016 10:00 AMhttp://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html"Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for… Read More »When Picasa is dropped in favor of Google Photos, will the URLs for existing photos uploaded to Picasa Web Albums remain the same? The easiest way to add photos to blog posts on +Blogger is to select photos on Picasa Web Albums. I have hundreds of blog posts going back many years which rely on URLs referencing photos in Picasa Web Albums
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
This week Helen Tarbet of +Los Padres National Forest will be releasing a new wildflower report for Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area. Figueroa Mountain sits above… Read More »Figueroa Mountain Wildflower Report
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
I was too early for the skiing when i passed through Revelstoke, British Columbia this fall. But with the U.S. Dollar recently at 1.4 Canadian… Read More »Fall Visit to a Heli-Skiing Paradise: Revelstoke
Here are some photos of the lenticular cloud formation at sunset the other day. The time-lapse video is up in a new blog post as… Read More »Lenticular Clouds at Sunset
Weather Timelapse: Lenticular Clouds in the Eastern Sierra Lenticular clouds are my favorite weather phenomenon, and my favorite to photograph and produce movies of. Fortunately… Read More »Weather Time-lapse: Lenticular Clouds Forming in the Eastern Sierra
+Nik Collection by Google has announced that its entire suite of photo editing tools is now free. When I evaluated the suite in 2013 I… Read More »The Nik Collection is Now Free