After two disappointing evenings at Mono Lake, we hit the photographic jackpot on Sunday morning, November 16. Temperature at the lake was a crisp 18F and we were encouraged by…

At about 10,000 feet elevation in the semi-arid White Mountains of California live the oldest species on earth: the ancient bristlecone pine (pinus longaeva). One of them has been measured at…

There's a reason people flock to New England in autumn. The weather is great and the fall colors are renowned. During the last week of September, I journeyed to north central…

Visitors from California inspired a trip out to the Cape Cod National Seashore on a beautiful September day. After crossing the Cape Cod Canal on the Sagamore Bridge, we drove…

The August full moon was a so-called "supermoon," about 14% larger than the "average" full moon because it was it its perigee. This gallery includes images taken over three successive…

Susan and I celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary (July 19) in Santa Fe. I went out the first night we were there and shot in the area of the La…

Living here in the San Francisco Bay Area means that there is so much ambient light created by "civilization" that on a clear night we can see only a fraction…

A Saturday drive on a beautiful June day north on Highway 1 begins with the obligatory Golden Gate Bridge shot.  Lunch at Bodega Bay at the fisherman's pier.  Then north along…

On Monday morning, May 12, 2014 I was out about an hour after sunrise to capture a few early morning shots along the South Fork of the Stanislaus River just below Strawberry.  About…

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…

The much-publicized lunar eclipse on April 14 was preceded by a moonrise about a half-hour after sunset.  From my vantage point here in Walnut Creek, the moon rose in the…

In June 1998, my children, Geoff and Elisabeth, and I (and Elisabeth's friend, Andrea) undertook a European Grand Tour of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and England.  These images are from that…

First in a series of resurrected images from my photographically checkered past... Almost 40 years ago, Susan and I spent a week in Florence.  Most of the Ektachrome slides I…

Lest we Right- and Left-Coasters think of the Midwest as strictly flyover country, some parts of it are booming.  Even in the depths of winter.  There are construction cranes all…

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,…