Looking through my photo archives, I came upon this still life. During spring last year, it seemed many of the photos submitted to my...

A lot of art was created during the pandemic–music, photos, collages, poems, and more. For me at home, most photos I created were related...

I was organizing my photos the other day and came across a few that I captured on September 9, 2020. As you'll recall, pandemic...

In Is This Food? I wrote about the artificially intelligent search engine that identified home made fire starter as food. Understandably,...

The di Rosa Art & Nature Preserve is a California gem. Located in South Napa, I’ve stopped there a few times on my way to wine tastings....

When I lived in Seattle many years ago, I was never aware that snow geese migrated from the Russian Arctic tundra to the Skagit Valley...

I once attended a workshop in which the presenter talked about flower photography. She pointed out that photographers who capture images...

As humans, we have a strong tendency to make meaning from otherwise random arrangements. The term for is is pareodoila. When I...

Joseph Ballinger Chiles (cheye-els) was one of the people who received a land grant from Mexico in the 1800s. Like most people in the...

I have an search plug-in for Photoshop (Excire) that supposedly uses machine learning (AI) to analyze images and figure out what's in...

You've heard of Sweet 16, but probably not sunny 16 unless you are a photographer. Maybe not even then. I've been taken photos for...

The Old Faithful Geyser of Calistoga erupts about every 90 minutes. While waiting, people can hang out in lounge chairs, play bocce ball,...

A couple of days ago I mentioned the difficulty of capturing a scene that was mostly white, and the need to over expose it to trick the...

The word of the day for the 365-Day project is kiss. Glen was kind enough to pucker up. I did some post processing to impart a painterly...

One of the most difficult scenes to photograph accurately is snow. Actually anything that has white on white is difficult: a white dog...

I stopped in Napa Valley for lunch before driving home from three days in the Calistoga area. Joe’s Downtown has corn riblets on its...

One of the reasons to join a wine club is the opportunity to pick up shipments in person. I'm lucky that I live close to Napa Valley...

The Antinori family of Italy claims to have been making wine for the past 630 years. It is a business they are in for the long term....

All the years that I have been visiting Calistoga, I've driven past the Bale Grist Mill. Today I stopped and took a tour. The mill was...

I am still participating in the 365 Day Project for which I submit an image a day to the Photographic Society of America (PSA). PSA...