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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

This past week amidst a quick run to photograph the eastern Sierra’s I experienced a moment of true bliss. I didn’t have much time to spare on my trip so I made use of every minute available to me to photograph the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain region. On the road at 1 AM and not stopping until 11 PM, my all day of travel and photography hit its peak at 10 PM when I photographed the Milky Way extending u

New York city is full of amazing places, but few other locations capture the imagination like Grand Central Station. If you’ve yet to see this building in person you owe it to yourself to do so. The ceiling is painted with an impressive mural of the stars and zodiac. You might think this photo to be out of place for my blog, but even in the heart of downtown Manhattan our natural world is commemorated. As impre

In case you didn’t know today is “Blog Action Day“. In the theme of environmental awareness I’m posting two recent photos that exemplify our day-to-day impact on the environment. Nothing brings social issues to the forefront of thought more so than photography. My challenge to those that read this post… point me to your favorite social documentary photograph highlighting the impact we ha

San Francisco sunsets vary with the weather, but they’re always stunningly beautiful. This past Monday was no exception. A low lying fog bank was rolling in as the sunset, covering homes in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Heights and Sunset Districts. [tags]San Francisco, sunset, landscape, photo, cityscape, fog, fog bank, sunset district, golden gate heights[/tags]

If you’re curious here is a link with test images from the new Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. On display are: 1. Examples of Fixed Point Photography 2. Examples of available Picture Styles 3. Examples of ISO Sensitivity 4. Examples of Long Exposures 5. Work Examples. Images are full size JPEG so be warned it may take a while to get through the images. The dimensions of each full size JPEG is 5,616×3,744 pixels. The s

A friend forwarded me a link to this video of Dave Story, Vice President Interactive Design at Adobe, demonstrating a 3D lens that captures 20 images simultaneously with a version of Photoshop software featuring a “focus brush”. The concept of creating a photograph with 3-D pixels and manipulating the display with a “focus brush” is quite a neat concept. In theory I think any technology that o