Category: California
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Photo Of The Week- A tale or tail of the squirrel.
This Western Gray Squirrel really wanted his picture taken. And to get my interest, it crept pretty close towards me and in an instant, flashed its big bushy tail. So became the tale of the tail.
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Photo Of The Week- Can You See Them Crawling Up My Foot?
A couple of rock climbers appear to climb up a giant foot at Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierras, California.
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What’s In The Clouds?
No, this post isn’t about that virtual hard drive in the internet cloud where you can access Photoshop and other programs and files. This is a science lesson about the clouds we actually see in the sky. Ever wonder what type of cloud is overhead dropping buckets of H2O? No. Maybe you want to know…
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Why You Should Take Up Backpacking
To get the shots I really wanted, I went out and bought a backpack. A tent. A stove. A mattress. A headlamp. A small pillow. A Jet Boil. A knife. Extra camera batteries. Matches. A wine bota. If you want to shoot in the golden light, miles from the nearest road, you’re just going to…
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Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Per The Cormorant
These Double-Crested Cormorants at Point Lobos, California can fly. But did you know that the Flightless Cormorants on the Galapagos Islands don’t fly. They have evolved so they don’t have to fly because there are no predators on the islands they inhabit. Of course, Darwin told us about this with his Theory of Evolution.…
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Photo Of The Week- Bouncing Sheep
Looks like this sheep got bounced off the feed pile. Shot taken at a farm in central California.
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Photo of the Week- A rock with legs!
This is in Death Valley, which may be the most interesting national park in the USA . It’s more like a Little Shop Of Horrors with its unique sand dunes that make noise, golf courses, artist’s palettes, racetracks, craters, the lowest spot in North America(minus 282 feet) and fame as the hottest place on the…
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How did this happen? The sun is round, right?
This image I shot at Point Lobos at Carmel, California shows a distorted sun at sunset. The top of the solar disc is a mirage, an optical phenomenon in which distant objects may seem distorted. Mirages of this type occur at high latitudes when a warm layer of air rests on a cold layer.…
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Images in from the cold. Winters past.
Many of you just endured a pretty harsh winter. It was way too cold to go outside. But, if you have a sense of adventure, a good down vest, winter boots, lots of fresh batteries, photographing winter can produce some memorable images.
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Yosemite’s Half Dome
I climbed Yosemite’s Half Dome towards the end of a 65 mile backpack through the High Sierras of California. So my legs were a bit weary when it came time to scale the precipitous granite walls of this iconic rock face. Thankfully, the National Park Service had installed chains and boards to the seemingly vertical…