california

Last year on one of my trips I was coming back down the I-5 in California. This is somewhere in the middle of the state and the sun was getting low, the fields were looking golden, and the rather brisk wind was stirring the grass and causing a nice golden glow in the atmosphere. So here is my...

Here is one from last year up in the Eastern Sierra up above Rock Creek off of Hwy 395 in California. It's really great to be able to capture the wildflowers blooming like this next to the creek. All comments are welcome, Jim

This was from a week ago along Hwy 1 by Santa Maria on the way up the coast to Big Sur in California. There are tons of vineyards now along that road and I had been seeing come fall colors among them. So when I spotted this, I made the next exit to stop for a few and shoot it. All comments are...

There were so many cool looking seals there at Piedras Blancas in lower Big Sur. The Elephant Seals are all over this one area with lot's of interaction between them. If you are ever in Santa Barbara or that area be sure to check it out. All comments are welcome, Jim

Last weekend on my birthday run up to Pismo Beach for world famous Clam Chowder I ended up going up to test out the new Tamron 150-600mm G2 at the Elephant Seal gathering at Piedras Blancas just north of San Simeon which is at the bottom end of Big Sur in California. The light was getting low...

Here are a couple of more shots from Morro Bay and Sea Otter that was having fun in the actual bay area. It was nice to be able to eat some fish and chips and clam chowder and then walk 50 feet to shoot the Sea Otter. :) All comments are welcome, Jim PS. These were shot with my early...

I went up to Cambria in California at the bottom of Big Sur this last weekend to go through their Christmas Market and enjoy the possibly millions of light bulbs on display. I decided to also bring my soon to be Christmas present, a new Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens to hopefully play with. On Sunday...

The colorful sunsets have returned to Laguna Beach, went out to Wood's Cove on Friday and captured a couple of images that were worthy of editing. Not quite as colorful as I was hoping for, but still plenty there. Glad our boring summer skies are gone. A few minutes later, moved a little...

This is a sunset also from a few weeks back in La Jolla in San Diego at Hospital Reef. This is just to the right of my previous post. It has these channels cutting through the reef, and so in incoming waves end up rushing through those channels and it looks really cool. In this one spot the...

Coming back north from San Diego a few weeks back the I-5 was packed in one area, so we got off and took the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) Hwy 1 up along the coast where we went through Oceanside California. It was past dinner time and the stomach was growling quite a bit, so we turned off PCH...

From 2 weeks ago in San Diego. After Christmas shopping I made sure I had time to zip over to Hospital Reef in the La Jolla area. I was thinking the tide might be a little too high, but with the Daylight Savings time change, it all worked out perfectly. The sky went crazy, and the reds have been...

Literally, I was looking down on the fall color even as my spirit was soaring high from the fall colors. :) These are from a few weeks ago in Yosemite National Park. I can really get stuck in looking and seeing the world around me in a certain way (Wide Angle). So I tried to mix it up a bit in...

We went down to San Diego to go visit a large Christmas store they have there and I made sure to bring my camera along as I was hoping that afterwards a visit to La Jolla for sunset would work out. And it did. :) This is in the Hospital Reef area, it's a very cool area with lot's of rocks...

Aspen trunks in the height of their fall color in the Hope Valley, south of Lake Tahoe.

I visited the Mariposa Grove of Sequoias when I was in Yosemite earlier this week. I had a fun time, the light was mostly cloudy with just periodic sunlight so it was pretty perfect conditions. All comments are welcome, Jim

I just missed meeting up with Kyle and Jim Sanderson in Yosemite early this week, but I didn't miss the fall colors. It was awesome there. This is from the Mariposa Grove of Sequoia trees. It's an area more known for it's Sequoia trees but is also a great place for fall colors. All comments are...

There is a grove of these twisted redwoods North of Mendocino near the Lost Coast. I'd never seen anything like them. I tried capturing one of the more interesting trees with some atmosphere.

As I had mentioned I hiked up into the Cathedral Lakes in Yosemite High Sierra. This is Upper Cathedral Lakes looking at Cathedral Peak. With a few of the comments in mind from my first post of there, I did add some more contrast on this one. This was after the first one so the golden tones were...

Milky Way season (i.e. when the core is visible to the eye) in the Northern Hemisphere runs from Feb. to about Nov. approximately. Early in the season, the core comes up over the horizon approximately around 2 am depending on your exact location. By the end of the season, the core rises earlier...

This guy seemed to have a few friends hanging around as he surveyed his work scene. :) An archive shot from Huntington Beach California that has me missing the beach while I am here in New Mexico. :confused: All comments are welcome, Jim