Yesterday was the 53rd Earth Day. It began in 1970 as a single-day protest over the planet’s environmental degradation, while in 2022, it was an opportunity for a quick social media post to virtue-signal and return to drinking your bottled water.
Latest Trend: Landscape Photography Dutch Angles
In the photographic world, only one person can birth an original idea. Then people follow and create a trend, and then that trend becomes a cliche. In these modern times of cliche, HDR-ridden, Orton-glowed-to-death, luminosity-masked-to-hell, multi-composite monstrosities, I bring to you my newest pursuit: Landscape Photography Dutch Angles.
March 2022 Photo of the Month: SNT143
My March 2022 Photo of the Month is SNT43, taken in a small field of wildflowers at Santee Boulders in the Eastern area of San Diego.
February 2022 Photo of the Month
My February 2022 Photo of the Month is SC122, taken on a beautiful morning in San Diego’s Sunset Cliffs Natural Park.
Some Spring Green in MTRP
It was a beautiful Saturday, and I sought some respite in one of my frequent haunts, the West end of San Diego’s Mission Trails Regional Park.
Bill Ewasko Can Rest Peacefully Now
This past week, a couple of hikers found Bill Ewasko1, missing in Joshua Tree National Park for nearly 12 years. I was delighted at this news and hope this brought his family some closure, and had some personal thoughts of my own on how we seek destinations known and unknown, and the dangers that wait.
January 2022 Photo of the Month: OH80108
My January 2022 Photo of the Month is OH80108, a photo taken along the Wildwood Glen section of Old Highway 80 as a storm came through San Diego County. OH80108 Background I didn’t get out much in January. Save for a couple trips to Walker Preserve and Mission Trails Regional Park, I largely sat the … Read more
Hiking West Mission Trails
Now that I have more time to get out and hike after work, I was thinking of a few places in my neighborhood of Santee. Unfortunately, the West side of Mission Trails Regional Park that I like to hike is mostly off-limits during the weekdays, so I picked a weekend to get out and explore. … Read more
Birds Chirping
I have a number of friends who are bird photographers. I am not one of them. Numerous attempts have been made to recruit me, but I just can’t do it. Landscapes and clouds, it will be. That doesn’t mean I don’t like and appreciate birds, far from it. After a suggestion some time back from … Read more
Mountains, Clouds, and Rainbows
I took a trip to the Laguna Mountains during a San Diego storm, hoping for some dramatic weather up in the mountains. I didn’t get what I wanted, but I still ended up with some fun images I wasn’t expecting. Sometimes, the clouds make it over Laguna Crest and provide cloud cover for the Borrego … Read more