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This year's Image Quest photography tour returned to the Central Coast regions of California, exploring with our cameras the literary landscape John Steinbeck wrote about in books such as "Pastures of Heaven," "The Red Pony," "Cannery Row" and "East of Eden."


The trip co-leaders were Ken Rockwell and Richard Nolthenius. Ken and I will conduct another trip together, this time to the Point Reyes/Marin County area, north of San Francisco, California, in early September - check here for updates and for information about two other trips this autumn, to Yosemite and the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, that Ken and I are conducting.


Richard Nothenius has photos posted here.


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In the Santa Lucia Mountains

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Helping Hand, Carmel Mission

While I'm not particularly religious, I can appreciate the desire to understand why we are here, and how we should act. Some of that is embodied in the simple gesture of this little statue.
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Looking for a Ride Under Magic Hour Light

A fog bank obscured the sun, dampening our hopes for continued light over the Bixby Bridge. Just before the sun dropped into the sea, it sent a few, dim shafts of light earthward. The angle of the hitting Highway 1 reflected a golden glow to those of us who happened to be looking away from the bridge, and outlined our "model" Eric, who suddenly, of his own volition, became a slightly menacing figure.
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Photographing the Landscape from the Santa Lucia Mountains

There are reflections everywhere - we just have to look for them. This clouds in this reflection lined up nicely with the clouds behind the photographer.
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Woman in Salinas

I almost always ask permission to make someone's photograph. Almost always.
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Blind to the Truth, Salinas

Last year, I photographed this woman in front of the home that was Steinbeck's as a youth (the first photograph is visible here ). I carry her photograph - along with those of others I've photographed on my trips - on my cell phone. When I saw my lovely friend again, I tried show her what I'd come up with last year, show her the beautiful truth of who she is.

She told me she could no longer see well enough to look at the little image. Then she graciously allowed me to photograph her again.



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At Cachugua, California

He watched over his granddaughter, who swam in the Carmel River, at the little community of Cachagua, a remote place reached by traveling over a back road off a back road.
Capture Date: Jun 13, 2009 03:13 PMViews: 82

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We Met in Monterey

"I lost everything in Katrina. I left New Orleans for Texas and now I'm here."

It's not easy to photograph people. Part of the problem is simply inexperience in asking permission to make a photograph, and on a more basic level, there's the fear of rejection by the potential subject.

I've asked enough times over the years that I don't mind rejection. And I have a few tricks to create a quick kinshiop with people that I employed on our trip to make portraits like this one possible.
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Ken Rockwell Talks About Photography

After we returned from our afternoon field locations, Ken gave a informative and entertaining lecture at the El Castell Motel indoor pool, which included a showing of some of his photographs to illustrate the topics he covered.
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At the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA

Capture Date: Jun 11, 2009 07:40 PMViews: 82

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