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.
