Join us for Open Studios October 8 & 9 and 15 & 16 at our home in Aptos.

Our new location is 208 Rosemarie Ct., Aptos, CA 95003

Open 10:00 am – 5:00 pm each day.

We’re looking forward to seeing you soon!

Parking is limited on our street.
Please park in our driveway, guest parking, or in the Bangkok West parking lot. Thank you!

Another week and another 10 images added to the website.  Landscapes, wildlife, mountains, ocean, and some close-up images capturing worlds within worlds.

I shot Pilings, Seacliff State Beach just a few blocks from my house on one of our evening walks down the beach.

Oak Hillside in Springtime was taken on a day trip to Mount Diablo State Park.  I headed out hoping to capture the hills with fresh green growth which only lasts a short time before the warmer days take over and turn the grass golden brown for much of the rest of the year.

After the first rain showers of the season in late September I noticed this Spiderweb strung between our house and hedge.  I spent the better part of an hour on a ladder trying to capture the little jewels hanging in the web.

On a visit back to my hometown of Seekonk, MA I captured this Bullfrog at Caratunk Wildlife Refuge which my mom helped establish in the early 70’s.

Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico is truly one of the most spectacular places to photograph waterfowl and Sandhill Cranes during the migration season.  It has plenty more to offer as well and on one visit I was able to photograph this Northern Harrier perching in the late afternoon sun.

Prior to my recent project with rocks and minerals, I spent some time photographing backlit leaf details in a controlled studio setting.  I’m continually fascinated with the abstract patterns and lack of scale these images offer.  This Liquidambar Leaf was particularly enticing.

It’s very easy to get lost in the grand landscapes of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, but on this particular morning I ended up on crawling on my belly exploring the tiny world of melting frost on the meadow grasses which resulted in Morning Dew.

After spending a couple of days around the Mt. Hood area I headed out to John Day Fossil Beds to photograph the Painted Hills where I caught a fairly decent rainstorm.  With the cool temperatures in early September I took a return trip to Trillium Lake on a hunch that Mt. Hood would get it’s 1st coating of snow for the season.  My hunch paid off.

Mark Abbott Memorial Lighthouse is a landmark in Santa Cruz which houses the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum and surfers take on the waves of Steamer Lane.  I happen to be photographing the Walton Lighthouse at the mouth of Santa Cruz Harbor a few miles south and noticed the possibility of the setting sun lining up behind the “Surfer Lighhouse”.  I pulled out the big glass to compress the scene and render the sun large in the frame with silhouettes of the lighthouse and visitors enjoying the scene.

There’s no better place to see and photograph Souther Sea Otters than Elkhorn Slough in Moss Landing CA.  On one of my recent trips down this 5 mile estuary I was able to capture this Otter with Pup cruising through the eel grass.

Each week, you’ll find the latest 10 images in the New Images Gallery.

Included in this week’s 10 images are several best sellers from Central California and Yosemite as well as a handful of more recent shots.

Oak Grove was taken on the conservation property of Porter Ranch.  The oaks here are spectacular and on this morning I was treated to beautiful light and fresh green grass to compliment the dense growth of trees.

Last week I posted an image from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon and this week I’m adding Painted Hills Detail #1 from the same outing.

I was born and raised in Massachusetts and frequently travel back to my home state to visit family and friends.  On one of these trips Lisa and I took an afternoon to visit Walden Pond made famous by Henry David Thoreau.  Having heard stories about the crowds there we were pleasantly surprised to have the place to ourselves on a chilly early winter day when I shot Birch Trees, Winter.

Rocks and Surf was captured on the north end of Big Sur.  The sun had set and the fading light of twilight allowed for a long exposure which created the misty look of the water flowing between the rocks.

One of my signature images, The Hunt, Short-eared Owl was taken on Christmas Day on the north side of the San Francisco Bay Delta at Grizzly Island Complex.  I had spent several hours shooting various raptors and just before sundown I spotted this owl cruising the open fields for dinner.  He made several passes and would occasionally drop down attempting to grab prey and I was only able to successfully lock focus on this one frame.  I was shooting film at the time and didn’t know I had the shot till I got the film processed a few weeks later.

If conditions are just right in late February, visitors to Yosemite Valley are treated to an incredible show as the last light of day illuminates Horsetail Fall which flows off the eastern side of El Capitan.  I’ve been lucky enough to witness and photograph this phenomenon on all 3 occasions that I’ve taken the trip out to see it.

Clearing Storm Clouds was shot just a few blocks from my house on Seacliff State Beach.  A big storm had just rolled through and the skies started to part just before sunset and lit up the sky.  I saw another photographer further out on the beach and I decided to include their silhouette in the frame for a sense of scale.

One of my favorite times to visit Yosemite is in the spring when the waterfalls are pumping and the Dogwood Blooms are gracing the Valley in abundance.

California’s state flower, the California Poppy, is a subject I seem to revisit year after year.

On my recent trip to Yellowstone National Park we had only one night of fresh snowfall so my fellow photographers and I spent the next morning looking for interesting subjects and were fortunate enough to come across this American Bison.

Each week, you’ll find the latest 10 images in the New Images Gallery.

This week, I’ve included images from Central America and some other best sellers.  As always you can find them all in the New Images Collection.

Little Boy Peeking was taken on a 3 week trip through Belize and Guatemala back in 1997.  This boy poked his head out of his family’s booth at the local market and I was able to capture this moment just before he noticed me, smiled and stuck out his tongue.

I took Mesquite Flat Dune on my 1st (and only) trip to Death Valley.  I’m looking forward to returning soon to explore more of the unlimited possibilities this National Park offers.

Another park with plenty to offer is Zion National Park in Utah which is where I took Maple Impression.  Autumn is particularly spectacular.

Back in 2001 my wife Lisa and I were on a road trip through the Southwest and were fortunate enough to catch a rare Aurora Borealis display in Southern New Mexico while visiting friends in the small village of Las Placitas.

Mother and Daughters was taken on my Guatemala trip in 1997.  It was a very quick “grab” shot but I love how the mother is holding a fully loaded basket hands free with a baby on her back (you can just make out the baby’s hand hanging down from the back of the sling), the older daughter has a bundle she’s balancing hands free, and the youngest has a smaller load and is using her hands to help stabilize.  And, all 3 are almost perfectly in stride.

Spouting Horn is a well known blowhole near the town of Poipu on the southern coast of Kauai, Hawaii.

The colorful Painted Hills of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument were formed over 35 million years ago as the result of volcanic activity and sedimentation from this ancient floodplain.

Buttressed Tree, Heliconia, and Canopy and Moon were all taken in the pristine rainforest of the Bladen Nature Reserve in southern Belize where I had the unique opportunity to spend several days camping and photographing.