Tag: California
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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- 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…
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Chinatown Butcher
Seeing other bloggers’ photos reminded me of this pic I took in San Francisco’s Chinatown. There’s a lot going on in this photo just by looking at the clerk waiting patiently as the customers chat with each other amongst the various poultry parts. ” I’ll take a pound of those nice looking turkey feet please”