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Last week I posted a photo “The Splendor of Fall Color” in a blog post titled “In Search of Fall Color in the Eastern Sierra’s” that employed a technique called zooming. Since then I’ve received a couple of inquiries requesting more information about this photographic technique. A very talented photographer and reader of this blog, Sherri Meyer, has a great write up on how to make use

The eleventh episode of EXIF and Beyond, a video podcast, has been released. Photographing Yosemite National Park in the winter is discussed. Learn more about this amazing area and tips to capture great winter landscape photos of Yosemite valley. Download the latest episode: Yosemite Winter Photos For the non-iTune listeners a streaming version of this podcast can be accessed here. Thank you for listening. Please fee

Sometimes some of the most beautiful scenery is neatly tucked away out of view just off the side of the road, such was the case with this photo. A leisurely stroll through the forest yielded this view. It was extremely relaxing, the only thing breaking the silence was the sound of rustling leafs as the wind blew through the trees. So where am I going with this? I guess if you’re driving from point A to B and yo

While driving across town here in San Francisco I happened upon this trio of Jack O’lanterns. With the sun fading and the Cape Cod-esque facade to the home I couldn’t resist photographing them. Seeing these photos again reminded me that there are only 7 more days before the trick or treaters come out.

Phototropism – a movement or growing in a particular direction that is made by a living thing in response to light – Merriam-Webster Dictionary Pictured is a ground level view of horsetails and Aspen trees shooting skyward toward the sun. Aspen Canopy and Horsetails More Fall Color Photos… [tags]fall color, aspen, nature, photo, forest, horsetail, equisetum, stock, photography, phototropism[/tags]

Happening upon a stream might not seem that exciting to most people, but for myself it proved to be one of the highlights of my day while photographing fall color in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains. I found a couple great subjects including this small branch of Aspen leafs stuck in the water. What caught my eye when I first saw this was the droplet of water on the leaf glistening in the sun. The Aspen leafs float

One of the many things I’ve forced myself to do over the years when in the heat of the moment photographing a subject, particularly one that is right in your face, is to take a moment to pull myself away to see things I might be missing. Last week when photographing fall color in the eastern Sierra Nevada mountains it was easy to get pulled into photographing stands of Aspen trees, but it took effort to stop an

For many in San Francisco Sutro Tower is nothing but an eyesore, but due to the tower’s central location and height its now being employed to help monitor greenhouse gases as part of the California’s aggressive environmental legislation AB 32. The California Greenhouse Gas Emissions Project, a pilot program known as CALGEM, is the brainchild of scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They