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This photo was taken last year in Bridgeport, California, where there is not only a large professional fireworks display, but people are allowed to light… Read More »Independence Day

From a visit in September 2012, when +Lori Hibbett +roma g +Natalia Stone and I checked the Web cams at the +Mono Lake Committee and saw clouds building, so… Read More »Sunset Rain at Mono Lake

This is one of the earlier images I posted on G+, a Winter sunrise reflection at Topaz Lake on the California/Nevada border.  Shooting into the… Read More »There's No Place Like Home

I've added a few photos to the album from the workshop I led in Death Valley National Park in mid-March.  One of the techniques I… Read More »Light Painting in Death Valley National Park

The calcium carbonate (limestone) "tufa" rock formations at Mono Lake form underwater, when calcium-rich springs meet the alkaline water of the lake.  The PH of… Read More »Tufa Rock Formations, High and Dry

Most photographers have probably heard the phrase “F/8 and be there”? Why is it considered good advice? The advantage of “be there” is obvious, the… Read More »F/8 and Be There

"Sarcodes is a monotypic genus of a single springtime flowering plant in the heath family containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow… Read More »Snow Plant

I was driving through the Truckee National Forest on Monday between Truckee and Kings Beach when I saw movement on the side of the road.… Read More »Black Bear and Cub