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I visited my dad over the weekend in Mendocino county and we started the day with a hike along the Stornetta coastline just south of Point Arena (you can see the lighthouse in the background). I always end up gravitating to this spot as I like the elements in the scene. The sunrise wasn't great...

I spent some time playing with a new toy in Bodega Bay ( 500 f/4). This was the least skittish egret I have ever come across. 1) Great Blue Heron Flyby 2) Stalking Egret 3) Posing Egret 4) Fluffing Egret

1) Rocky Mountain Way Lake McDonald – Glacier National Park, Montana This is probably my favorite image from the year. This view of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park looks toward the northeast, which isn’t great for aligning with the Milky Way. My best chance would be early in the...

I found this guy walking in my driveway so I found it necessary to point some glass at him. Both captured with the Canon R5 and Sigma 150-600. Any thoughts are welcome. 1) Prancing along 2) Giving me the stare down

The town of Elk on the Mendocino Coast has several nice viewpoints. I decided to try my luck at this point for sunrise yesterday. I would have liked to get closer to the edge, but it's fenced off. Still a nice scene. Any thoughts are welcome.

I spent a few hours at Valley View when I was in Yosemite a few weeks ago watching the light. The color along the shoreline was nice and the extra water in the river broke up the reflections a little more than I'd hoped. I decided the best light was before the shoreline moved into shadow, when...

Here is another couple of images from my recent trip to Yosemite. That bright yellow tree caught my eye from the road and I had to stop and check it out. I played some with its placement in the frame, the colors in the background, and how much of the river to include. Here are two favorites 1)...

I know it looks like I placed the leaf in the lower right corner, but I swear I didn't even know that foreground crept into the frame! Any thoughts are welcome.

After driving through this area several times I decided I needed to stop and take a photo. This is Southside Drive in Yosemite just passed the Pohono Bridge. I felt like it rivals some of the east coast road scenes that I've seen. Any thoughts are welcome.

Vernal Falls has always been one of my favorites in Yosemite. It is also appropriately named as it is at its most impressive in the spring and usually slowing to a trickle by fall. The recent rain storms, though, have brought it back to life and given me my fist chance to shoot it with fall...

I made a quick trip to Yosemite valley this weekend looking for fall color. The maples were on great display and with the recent rains the waterfalls were strong. I tried my hand at shooting sunrise at Tunnel View and was happy to see some clouds pickup up some color in the distance. I have some...

Last one from Bowman Lake, I promise! The sun had gone behind a cloud, and then began to poke through and illuminate a hillside covered in yellow larches. I thought it was pretty cool to have the trees lit up and everything else dark, so here it is. This is intentionally processed dark to add...

Here's a portrait view from Bowman Lake, trying to pick up Glacier's ubiquitous colorful rocks in the foreground. I adjusted my polarizer in an attempt to get some reflections while also being able to pick up the rocks. The light isn't quite as nice as in my other image, but I do like the...

I made my first trek to the northern entrance to Glacier this weekend. The drive from Colombia Falls to Polebridge was gorgeous, with some past prime aspens, prime larches, mountain views, and the north fork of the flathead river. I'll have to spend a lot more time there next fall. After...

I've been eyeing this grove of trees along Hwy 93 in Kalispell for a while and decided to drive down with my camera this morning. I took some landscape scenes as well, but I wanted to start with this view of some aspen trunks surrounded by autumn leaves. As always, any thoughts are welcome.

I drove over Logan Pass Saturday evening, hoping to take advantage of the early moonset and forecasted clear skies to do a little night photography in some popular spots. I started at the Wild Goose Island lookout and there were more clouds than expect and plenty of wind to churn up the trees. I...

This is from a couple of months ago but I finally managed an edit of it that seems to work for me. It was a great sunset and the clouds got even more interesting as the evening progressed. For this twilight image I went with a wide view to get some of the colorful rocks into the bottom of the...

I drove into Glacier last night to take advantage of some (finally) clear dark skies. I had a pretty good idea that the Milky Way would be stretching above Bird Woman Falls so I set up near Haystack Creek at a spot I'd scouted with a relatively clear view. Here are three takes on the scene. I'm...

I made a stop at Logan Pass yesterday afternoon (or more accurately I was stopped because an accident closed the road) and captured a few frames while I was there. For this one I liked the clouds over the mountains and the bit of light in the distance. Any thoughts are welcome.

I made my way to the Ninepipe Lodge last night, seeing a good opportunity to capture sunset with some nice cloud and mountain reflections. Here are my two favorites, and any thoughts are welcome. 1) Take best advantage of the clouds radiating from behind the mountains 2) I like the mountains...