We took a drive up to Point Reyes Station Saturday morning and ended up on an Elk reserve that I never knew existed. The Elk reserve is on land inhabited by a family who has apparently live there since the late 1800s. Elk all over the place. This is a photograph of their barn. (the family’s, not the elk –…
read moreA couple of things happened at the same time over this President’s Day Weekend. I had to replace my car at the end of last year and the one i bought way back in early january just arrived this weekend (finally), i got a new camera which arrive thursday, and i got involved in a last-minute work fracas which lasted…
read moreThis past weekend involved another trip to a place i love: Yosemite National Park. I can’t quite wrap my mind around the past couple of weeks, shifting between a rather drab work-week and then these fantastic places for about 50 hours. I guess that’s California for you, nothing’s more than a train ride (or a 3 hour drive) away. Yosemite…
read moreYosemite National Park: Early February 06: Bridal Veil Falls – Yosemite National Park (link) Back to Basics (link) Bridal Veil Falls from Above (link) Redwood and Moss (link) Snow Shoeing Along Badger Pass (link)
read moreUnfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you feel about these sorts of things, this picture was pretty much taken from a parking lot. Granted it’s a nice parking lot with a great view, but it’s a parking lot. The trend on this sort of thing around the park is upwards – which is… well the way it is. i’ll be…
read moreSeeing as i just cleaned the darkroom today i thought i’d take a break from what will become a Yosemite sequence and put up a picture of the eBokeh bathroom, er, darkroom facilities that i took a couple of weeks ago. As you can see we’re state of the art the entire way. This past weekend involved another trip to…
read moreI got to spend this weekend lazing around Yosemite, one of my most favorite past-times, even over Super-Bowl weekend. Of course living here on the west coast the super-bowl starts at about 3pm. Since we didn’t get on the road until about 2:30pm and there were about 180 miles of asphalt between the park and the couch there wasn’t much…
read more