Category Archives: California

The Nikon D800 – First Impressions

Stanford Memorial Church at 36.3 megapixels The Stanford Memorial Church was the location of the very first image I published on this blog! For a look at the outside of the church under an eclipsed solstice moon, click here.. By this point, the internet is fairly full of Nikon D800 reviews. Photographers from around the...

The Stanford Memorial Church - First Impressions of the Nikon D800

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Perigee-syzygy – Supermoon, May 5, 2012

Luna and the pincushion skyline of San Francisco A set of photographs from a rare conjunction of a setting, fully eclipsed moon and the Golden Gate can be found here. The wikipedia entry describing the “supermoon” phenomenon is here. Saturday, May 5th marked the perigee-syzygy of the Earth, Moon and Sun. The sun set over...

Marin and the Super Moon, May 5th, 2012

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Arastradero

Late afternoon light amongst the live oaks. The great asphalt ribbon of I-280 cuts from San Francisco to San Jose through the foothills of the rolling Coast Range. In summer afternoons great, white fingers of fog creep from over the coast to touch the golden hills. Winter rains turn the California savannah into a verdant...

Arastradero Open Space Preserve

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The Rolling Tempest

Pescadero State Beach From the asphalt arteries of the San Francisco Peninsula, to the very edge of America, a narrow ribbon of road runs. Over the coast range and through redwood groves we ride the hairpin turns of a shoulderless, muddy path to find the salt-crusted and sea-battered granite boundary of the country. We ride...

The Rolling Tempest - Pescadero State Beach

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Why photograph?

A torrent of images. We live in a world of exploding photographic documentation. Not only is it certain is that the number of photographs taken every year is growing, its growth rate is growing. Years ago, I remember reading that the average American is exposed to as many images in a day as his great-grandparents...

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