Artist’s Palette is one of the must-see drives in Death Valley. It winds and dips its way through hills of many-hued volcanic deposits....

One of my favorite sites in Death Valley is the Devil’s Golf Course. According to Wikipedia, it got it name from this quote in the 1934...

One of the most photographed and visited spots in Death Valley is Zabriskie Point. It is almost a right of passage for a photographer to...

There aren’t too many ways to get to Furnace Creek in Death Valley for those coming from the Bay area. You can approach from the south,...

I’ve driven over Pacheco Pass in California dozens of times and wondered about the dinosaurs on Dinosaur Point road. I finally stopped...

I sometimes purchase flowers for photography projects. More than two weeks ago I bought a bouquet of yellow flowers and another of...

The Opera San Jose production of Carmen was so wonderful, that I decided to see it a second time. The first time I attended a matinee,...

Now that I am participating in a Photographic Society of America (PSA) digital dialog for video, I am dusting off old videos. This month,...

One of my assignments for The Art of Seeing class, was to create a silhouette image during the day. It is far easier to created a...

When yesterday's temperatures dipped to 36 degrees, I thought it was cold. But this morning it was even colder at 30 degrees. Those of...

Patterns are wonderful subjects for photography, but they are even better if the pattern is in some way broken. One of this week's...

Part of this week's lesson in The Art of Seeing, is to use my camera in fully manual mode. Most people today take photos with a phone or...

The fact that oil and water don't mix is what created this image. I covered a table with a colorful Mexican blanket. Put two glass...

Among its gardens, the University of Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden has an impressive collection of plants and trees from...

When I was a child in upstate New York, my family went on many camping trips. They were inexpensive and gave us a chance to enjoy the...

The 365 Day Project poses the biggest challenges when the word of the day is an adjective. As much as the instructor of The Art Of Seeing...

One of the assignments for The Art of Seeing course this week is to incorporate a pattern into an image. Before I watched this week's...

My landscaper planted dozens and dozens of bulbs, but I wasn't quite sure where she put them. Over the past few weeks, green shoots...

Week 2 of The Art of Seeing with Bryan Peterson focuses on capturing images that evoke an adjective from the viewer rather than a noun. A...

I found a never-used empty nest on my walk today. It was on the ground, in the open, in a space that the deer typically congregate for...