Yosemite CA

There’s an Up Side Down Heart in the rock behind Yosemite Falls.

Yosemite CA

If you go to Yosemite the evening of your birthday, and IF it’s been a wet spring, and IF there are no clouds in the west at sunset, and IF you’ve waited patiently with many other photographers you’ll get to see this phenomenon: Horsetail Waterfall Shines!!

Tioga Road

Stopping along the Tioga Road I found a Sock Monkey in the rock that reflected marvelously in the water below!

Shaver Lake CA

On a Super Moon night reflecting in the water with the silhouette of the little pine trees at Shaver Lake was very special! The “bark-beetled” trees in the background are nice for color, but years later made unimaginable kindling for the Creek Fire. The little trees in the Rock stood as strong as they could….

Sierra Nat’l Forest CA

The single span, wooden truss Dinkey Creek Bridge was named not for its builder but for the creek which is named for the DOG, Dinkey who valiantly fought off a bear, giving his owners time to save themselves.

The Dinkey Creek Bridge held men and animals alike from 1938 to 2023 when the weight of “Snow-mageden” brought it down. Now, bureaucracy and building costs make it impossible to rebuild.

Shaver Lake CA

On a Super Moon night reflecting in the water with the silhouette of the little pine trees at Shaver Lake was very special! The “bark-beetled” trees in the background are nice for color, but years later made unimaginable kindling for the Creek Fire. The little trees in the Rock stood as strong as they could….

Sierra Nat’l Forest

The single span, wooden truss Dinkey Creek Bridge was named not for its builder but for the creek which is named for the DOG, Dinkey who valiantly fought off a bear, giving his owners time to save themselves.

The Dinkey Creek Bridge held men and animals alike from 1938 to 2023 when the weight of “Snow-mageden” brought it down. Now, bureaucracy and building costs make it impossible to rebuild.

Merced Wildlife Refuge

And then there were four… Four pink-legged, beak-tucked stilts, standing in a row on the water’s edge.

Shaver Lake CA

To get a good spot we took our pop-up early in the morning. We had snacks and puzzles and books and games to pass the time until the Fireworks Show started over Shaver Lake!

Merced Wildlife Refuge, Merced CA

The geese fly in in a Skein, the Plump of them together forming the shape of one, coming into the Merced Wildlife Refuge.

Shaver Lake CA

To get a good spot we took our pop-up early in the morning. We had snacks and puzzles and books and games to pass the time until the Fireworks Show started over Shaver Lake!

Shaver Lake CA

Add some clouds and the sunrise is glorious in the morning at Shaver Lake!

Shaver Lake CA

To get a good spot we took our pop-up early in the morning. We had snacks and puzzles and books and games to pass the time until the Fireworks Show started over Shaver Lake!

Shaver Lake CA

They’re true friends who will hike with you late at night on the trail to the top of Ely Mountain to see the Milky Way Over Shaver Lake.

Yosemite CA

Someone was having some great big ‘smores back there at that great big campfire beside El Capitan!

Pescadero CA

Once a year, for many years the photographers would come from all around for the lighting of this First-Order Antique Fresnel Lens in the Pigeon Point Lighthouse. I heard about it and went to see it myself, only to find out how amazing it and Long-Exposure Photography is! Im so glad I went; since then the lighthouse has not been lit and later, they took the lens out, adding it to the museum nearby.

Pescadero CA

Once a year, for many years the photographers would come from all around for the lighting of this First-Order Antique Fresnel Lens in the Pigeon Point Lighthouse. I heard about it and went to see it myself, only to find out how amazing it and Long-Exposure Photography is! Im so glad I went; since then the lighthouse has not been lit and later, they took the lens out, adding it to the museum nearby.