After a short but beautiful drive a few miles up the Maine coast and past York Harbor, I reached the famous lighthouse that sits on an island just a few…
Perched at the top of Cape Ann some 40 miles north of Boston, Rockport has long been a tourist attraction. Its snug harbor, highlighted by a red fishing (or lobster)…
Susan and I rendezvoused with our son Geoff and his family at the Grand Canyon in mid-July at the height of the tourist season. Our major accomplishment was finding a…
As Susan and I drove east in July 2016 we stopped briefly at two contrasting places. The first was a brief visit to Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border. It…
Not everyone realizes that there is another 300+ miles of California coastline north of San Francisco. If what's south of Monterey is Big Sur, this even larger area is "Big…
In late May, 2016, my friend Jerry and I traveled to far northern California to Redwood National Park and a variety of State Parks located between Eureka and Crescent City. It…
A morning hike in springtime in the Mount Diablo foothills is truly soul-refreshing. These images were made in the hills above Borges Ranch here in Walnut Creek. That I was on…
Susan and I celebrated her birthday and Leap Day 2016 with friends, Jenny and Chuck, at one of our favorite places on earth: the Monterey Peninsula, including a visit to Point Lobos Reserve…
Well, it's time for another book. This time my favorites from 2015. This collection is the result of travels around the United States (and one night in Canada) during 2015.…
On Mother's Day afternoon I drove to Pinecrest Lake at 6000 feet elevation in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was anxious to photograph the night sky some place without the light pollution that plagues…
On my way back from a short photo excursion to the Sierra Nevada mountains, I stopped at a couple old California gold rush sites, Chinese Camp and Knights Ferry (more a mill…
About 30 miles northeast of San Diego is the San Diego Zoo Safari Park (formerly known as the "Wild Animal Park"). Animals live in large enclosures and are generally free…
This was the appropriately spring-like sunrise view outside my office window on Easter Monday, April 21, 2014. The grass, which is still green at this time of year, is the…
Winter is a great time to photograph the Pacific Ocean surf. I shot these images in Monterey, Pacific Grove and Point Lobos State National Reserve in February 2014. The…
In February 2014, three intrepid engineers (Jerry Hanson, Joel Hanson, Craig Pynn) flew from warm California to Minneapolis. We then drove northeast for almost 300 miles, arriving at Grand Marais,…