Between 1968 and 1976 I photographed mostly in black and white because that's what I could afford. Black and white photography can be more challenging than color since the impact of…

The Parks Department of the City of Walnut Creek features a working ranch in the Mt. Diablo foothills. It is the trailhead for an entire panoply of trails in the…

The Berkshire Mountains are the western "outback" of Massachusetts. But they are not wilderness, and towns such as Lee, Lenox, and Stockbridge have been around for hundreds of years retaining their…

We  spent September and the first half of October at our home in Wareham on the South Coast of Massachusetts. Various photographic opportunities, ranging from the Wareham River across the…

It was a beautiful, clear night at Mattapoisett. The waning moon would not rise until after midnight. Happily, the southwest view from Ned's Point, where we would see the Milky Way,…

The rain was pretty much over—just a gentle sprinkle—when I arrived at Minuteman National Historic Park that runs along Massachusetts 2A between Lexington and Concord. Stopped first at Hartwell Tavern, which…

Ned's Point Lighthouse at the eponymous point in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts provides a wonderful vantage point to watch the sunset to the west and the moonrise to the east.

Built in 1933, the Cape Cod Railroad Bridge is a marvelous mix of precise engineering and rugged construction. There are only a few vertical lift bridges of this design in…

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…

While I was up at Pinecrest in the Sierras this June, I decided to take a different photographic tack. Rather than my usual collection of images of a particular area,…

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…