Category: Photography

  • During winter in the desert, talk often turns to the chance of rain in the forecast.  Will it cause flash flooding?  Will it be enough…

  • Yosemite.  The name is magical.  The scenery is amazing.  An area perhaps most made famous by photographer Ansel Adams, it is place to which landscape…

  • Being a prairie boy from Alberta, I really didn’t associate waterfalls with deserts until we started spending winters in Southern California. Certainly deserts are very…

  • Hero.  Scoundrel.  Rancher.  Miner.  Entrepreneur.  Homesteader.  Engineer.  Convicted Murderer.  Felon. Hard working.  Inventive.  Do-it-yourselfer. Father. Husband.  Wheeler Dealer.  Perhaps all of these terms could be…

  • 4 am.  Saturday morning. Is that my alarm already?  I crawled out of bed and quietly got ready to leave.  Out the door at 4:30.…

  • Over the past month I have been on two hikes in two very different yet similar environments.  Similar in that they are both desert-type environments…

  • In mid-November I decided that an overnight camping trip to Joshua Tree National Park was in order.  It would give me a chance to do…

  • In early November, I joined a group of fellow photographers from the camera club to which I belong for a 5-day outing to Zion National…

  • The first week or two back in the desert involved getting the house back in order and getting back into the “swing of things” after…

  • A number of friends have finally shamed me enough to get off my but and update my blog/website. It’s not that I haven’t been doing…

  • Sometime back in early May, a friend posted an article on Facebook which listed the “Top 25 Campsites in Canada”.  One of the campgrounds listed was…

  • In last week’s session of the composition course I am taking, we learned about tone and focal point as elements of good composition.  Tone is…