Category: California

  • With friends visiting over Christmas, we thought a visit to Pioneertown was in order. I have written about Pioneertown in previous posts as it is…

  • Just before Christmas I made another trip up to Joshua Tree National Park. As is my normal custom, I arrived nearly an hour before sunrise,…

  • Recently I had an opportunity to visit Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs. The garden features cactus, succulents and other plants found in various desert…

  • Two weeks after returning to our second home in California, after the “Covid year absense”, I returned to Joshua Tree National Park for the first…

  • Early in March, along with a group of my camera club friends, I visited Death Valley National Park. Rather than give a detailed account of…

  • I have to admit that I’m not an avid early-riser. However, if I have something specific planned, I really don’t have a problem getting up…

  • Barstow marks the boundary between the “sparsely populated” and “heavily populated” sections of Route 66 in California. And it marks a visible shift from businesses…

  • I don’t know why I have this “thing” for Route 66. As a Canadian, my interest may seem a bit odd. After all, it is…

  • This past winter I had the opportunity to take a photo workshop, actually more of a photo tour, with Sandi Wheaton http://sandiwheaton.com of the Salton…

  • Sometimes its fun to return to the same spot on different days to take essentially the same photo in different conditions. Last December I drove…

  • Now that we are a few days into 2018, I should finish off 2017 with a posting about a trip to Yosemite National Park in…

  • For part of this winter I made plans to camp and photograph in the Big Sur area.  I had my campsite booked and was looking…