Category Archives: Landscape Photography

Autumn in Escondido redux. Who doesn’t love fall?

For the last few weeks I’ve been committed to getting out every day and shooting, even if it’s just a single image a day.  While I started this “program” as a means of shooting more photographs (with the added benefit … Continue reading

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Getting one’s ducks in a row

As I was browsing ancient shots for my “Thanksgiving” post the other day, I came across this image, which I hadn’t looked at in many years, and which Jonna had never seen at all.   But loved at first sight. … Continue reading

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Upper Antelope Canyon

Hidden away on Navajo land just below Page, AZ, and Lake Powell is an amazing complex of slot canyons known collectively as Antelope Canyon.  This remains a hoped-for destination for virtually every landscape photographer on the planet, even though it’s long … Continue reading

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Torrey Pines/Black’s Beach Cliff-side Paintings

I went for a long walk on the beach below Torrey Pines State Reserve today with an old friend, and came upon these amazing natural “cliff-side paintings.”  And here’s the equally amazing part:  these shots were taken with my new … Continue reading

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Escondido. Late January!

I really don’t mean to gloat, but this is what Escondido looks like in late January! Flowering evergreen pear trees (pyrus kawakamii) are abundant in southern California, but native to Japan.  The shot was taken yesterday on East 5th Avenue in … Continue reading

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Canopied path at Torrey Pines State Reserve

There’s a path at Torrey Pines State Reserve, just below Red Butte off the Razor Point trail, that’s one of my favorite spots in San Diego.  I love the place  for its intense quiet beauty.  I’ll bet I’ve shot it … Continue reading

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Things to do in Escondido when the power grid goes down

San Diego County (essentially the size of the state of Connecticut) along with parts of northern Mexico, western Arizona and southern Orange County CA all lost power yesterday. Don’t ask. My guess is that some guy in Yuma, Arizona stuck a fork … Continue reading

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Balboa Park at night

I love shooting at night.  Just something about the mystery of it.  These shots were all made on the Prado, the heart of San Diego’s Balboa Park, in an area that was built for the 1915 Panama–California Exposition.  Since this was … Continue reading

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Visions of California

There’s a funny thing that goes through my head whenever I tell people from the midwest, the east coast and especially from outside the US, that I live in California. I’m pretty sure they have a well-developed image in their heads (…Hollywood, Malibu, Baywatch!) … Continue reading

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World Trade Center, circa 1988

We’ll hold jewelry photos for another day. Today we express a simple, yet fervent, hope that last night’s news marks the end of a terrible era, and the beginning of a time of healing. The snapshot below was taken from the top … Continue reading

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