Wawona Hotel, Yosemite
Sit down in front of the lily pond and the hotel beyond becomes visible as a reflection.
Capture Date: May 15, 2008 03:57 PM•Views: 112
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A Bear Ready For Its Close-Up
After making what I consider to be a lucky photograph of a bear (see the previous photograph in this gallery), I followed it for about two minutes as it ambled away from the road. The bear seemed unconcerned by my presence, although it would occasionally stop, scratch its claws on tree trunks, and look back at me, seeming to say, "Are you still here?" My subject finally made a little jump onto a tree trunk, and allowed me to make its official portrait. Then it jumped down and headed off at a faster pace, which told me that it was time to leave the bear alone.
Capture Date: May 15, 2008 05:21 PM•Views: 115
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The Mayans Are Coming, the Mayans Are Coming!
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Ennis House, which was constructed in 1924. With it's strange, Mayan temple-like appearance, the house sits on a narrow ridge-top above Los Angeles, and not far from the Griffith Park Observatory. It's one of four concrete block (or "textile block") houses in Los Angeles that Wright designed, and it's the most monumental. Capture Date: May 17, 2008 06:40 PM•Views: 113
I like this photograph for a couple of reasons. One, it's an unusual building, sitting in the middle of a street lined with more contemporary - and far smaller - homes. Two, I had to work to make this photograph, since I chose to ride my bike to the Ennis House, which sits several hundred feet up in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was worth the effort, with the weather, light, and my lungs and legs all cooperating with me. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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My Bike
My bike, atop my truck, in reflection on the side of a semi-trailer. Capture Date: Jun 6, 2008 07:48 PM•Views: 113
To see where I was going with my bike (and how difficult it - impossible? - it is to make good photographs from the saddle of a bike), go here for images and a story about the "Tour de Frog." No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Viewing the Heavens
Late light bathes the Griffith Park Observatory, which stands on the western flank of Mount Hollywood, above the city of Los Angeles. The open dome contains the solar telescope.
Capture Date: Jun 11, 2008 07:16 PM•Views: 112
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A Day at the Races
Riders approaching at the Burlingame (California) Criterium, a circular road race around the center of the town, located a few miles south of San Francisco. Capture Date: Jun 29, 2008 12:14 PM•Views: 114
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Reflecting on the Womens Race
The women race down the final straightaway in their event at the Burlingame, California, bike criterium, as my bike leans against the window in happy relaxation. Capture Date: Jun 29, 2008 02:15 PM•Views: 115
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Earth Mother and Amazons
This is a sort of "Phil Douglis" moment. Capture Date: Jun 29, 2008 02:24 PM•Views: 120
I made this photograph at the end of the women's race at the Burlingame (California) Criterium. At first I found the figure at the left an unnecessary intrusion and I cropped her out of the photograph. And then I saw the juxtaposition of figures tells a story about the life history of one half of the human species. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Tom and Lucy at the Family Breakfast Table
Tom and I were friends in college. I had had a pleasant visit with Tom, his wife, and some of his kids, in his hometown of Burlingame, California. Tom and Lucy (she would have been purring if she were a cat) are both wonderfully photogenic and the sunlight pouring into the breakfast room made for perfect portrait light.
Capture Date: Jun 30, 2008 09:01 AM•Views: 118
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Iconography - The View from the Hollywood Sign
The old sign, on the southern slopes of Mount Lee, has served as a symbolic lodestone to those who have sought fame in Hollywood, the entertainment capitol of the world. I made my visit late in the day, when the sunlight was low in angle and warm in color. Capture Date: Jul 1, 2008 07:13 PM•Views: 119
The view here shows the top and back of some of the 40-foot tall letters of the iconic sign. Beyond and below are the Santa Monica Mountains (also called, in this area, the Hollywood Hills), and then the flat lands of the Los Angeles Basin. Downtown Los Angeles is visible to the upper left, the Hollywood Reservoir is on the right. (For the complete photographic story of my visit to the sign, click here. ) No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Fire On The Water
I spent a week in the Tuolumne Meadows area, camping with members of the Yosemite Association, about 8,600 feet above sea level. On our last evening, smoke from a fire raging to the west of Yosemite National Parka slowly ambled east, spilling darkly past the surrounding peaks of the high country and out into the Great Basin Desert. The light from the setting sun, fuliginously orange, glittered in reflection in one of the creeks feeding into the nearby Tuolumne River.
Capture Date: Jul 26, 2008 06:17 PM•Views: 118
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Returning to the Harbor
Sailboats return at sunset to Marina del Rey, California (just south of the city of Santa Monica). Capture Date: Aug 19, 2008 06:57 PM•Views: 119
We all have to come home at the conclusion of the day, don't we? No matter where we've been, what we've done, how much fun we've had (or how much pain we've endured), the day, sadly or mercifully, will end. The sailors bringing these boats back to the harbor presumably enjoyed their day, if only because they knew it would have to come to an end. It is that poignant knowledge, that our days, that our lives, are finite, that makes them so poignantly pleasurable. There was only a little time to enjoy the view. And then I had to return home. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Sunset Over the Pacific
Montana de Oro State Park, on the central coast of California.
Capture Date: Aug 30, 2008 07:34 PM•Views: 116
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Unnamed Lake Along a Quiet Backroad
When I return from a trip on Interstate 5, I often make a detour to photograph this small lake - perhaps it would better be described as a large pond - near Gorman, a little community near the Tejon Pass. An emerald green oasis surrounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on one side, and semi-desert lands on the other, the lake sits in a depression along the famed San Andrea fault line.
Capture Date: Sep 20, 2008 12:51 PM•Views: 116
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Day of the Dead
Without a flash, it was difficult photographing this slightly menacing wraith. If there's a bit of blur, though, perhaps that adds to the ghostly mood.
Capture Date: Nov 1, 2008 07:42 PM•Views: 116
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