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,…