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Two versions of the same concept

Reddish, rough, relatively flat rock face

Grey, smooth, angular rock face

Driftwood at Dry Lagoon Abstract

Apple Blossoms

Evening at Tinware Harness

It's Funky Time!

This is about the 6th iteration of an image I captured with Tom the other day.

Farm Bureau show

I'll be entering two images into the Farm Bureau show coming up.  This is one of them.  The other is of Pam's barn.  Woohoo!

Revisiting "Along the Trillium Trail"

I was curious how redoing this image from five years ago would change with my current workflow.  Different.  Crisper.  Smoother.  Cleaner. Interesting.

Driftwood Lincoln Logs

More Smith River intensity

I Vant to Drink Your Blood

South Fork of the Smith

The Gorgeous Smith River

House On the Hill

Bald Hills Road; fog over the ocean

That is some ugly building

Night image with street lights for illumination

Hand tinting experiment

Statistical blending of 76 images ... oy

Slough, puddle, and ocean at Moonstone Beach

When you go out in the woods today ...

you better not go alone

And now, for a brief commercial announcement ...

299 Rock Shoot

Red and I went out a few days ago to shoot rock faces.  I did.  But, I'm more entranced by these right now.  First, the odd confluence of rock, dirt, daisies, and a butterfly.  The other has such interesting mixed textures.

Old wooden Trinidad Pier with fog bank approaching

Came across this while getting images ready for North Coast Open Studios.

Rock Faces near Dry Lagoon

What can I say.  I love these rocks.  

Dry Lagoon

Had a great time shooting with Pam yesterday.  We shot the dry north end first then the wet south end.  Tide was coming in so we didn't dawdle.

Lagoon and Ocean

Another image from the Lost Coast

Lost Coast Tidepool

Luckily, we were at the beach during low tide.

To the south of the south spit

Normally, I do very complex environments.  The simplicity of this appeals to me.

Redwood House Road

Had a great time with Pam and Tom heading up into the hills south of here.  Here's a couple of images from the trip.  From the second image, I've learned that I never want to use a polarizing filter on a blue sky.  Yuck.

Austin, NV

The largest two buildings center left are the gym and Austin School where I taught from 1971-1974.  The photo was taken from one of the many mining roads surrounding the town.  Shooting, developing, and printing were what helped keep my sanity in a town with no tv and the only radio was KSL from Salt Lake at night. I travelled 176 miles west for groceries, books, movies, etcetera.

Nasty day on the spit

Streams

Another rock shot on 299 tributary stream and high water on the Illinois River.

Dangerous Water

This was at a tributary off 299.  Attempting to accentuate the treacherousness of the water.  Are those tigers beneath the surface?

More Spit stuff

Here's my other-worldly interpretation of something both Tom and I shot.

About 100 yards away was this.

South Spit

Had a nice afternoon with Pam and Tom shooting south of the bar.  Here's the first couple of images I've worked on.

Across the Bar

Sand Etchings

Wind

In the next few weeks, I'm going to try to capture wind in photos.  Just to get the hang of the equipment I'm using, here's a photo of the Mayten tree in my front yard.  I've done a good job over the last couple of years getting a handle on tonality.  Now, I'm going after time.

Trinity Tributary

Stream bottom off 299.  The interplay of the surface ripples and the rocks below seem dissonant but are obviously not.

Northwest Eye show entries

I thought I had the marsh image ready to go.  But, there were a couple of small things about it that nagged at me.  Nothing a couple more hours couldn't clean up.

Arcata Marsh at Dawn

Rootball Ecosystem

Clouds for the RCC

I was looking out my office window and saw this cloud.  Walked out into middle of the street and shot it.

Pam and I went up Bald Hills Road last week.  We both shot this.