CaliforniaSan Diego Torrey Pines State Reserve and Broken Hill Sunrise This is a great time of year to get out along the coast of San…
CaliforniaSierra Nevada Piper’s Biennial Eastern Sierra Fall Color Hiking Trip 9/29/2019 Piper and I made a quick fall-color trip along the Highway 395, visiting a…
CaliforniaCarlsbadDesertSan DiegoWildflowers Sorry but No, 2019 Was Not a #Superbloom It's official: 2019 was not a wildflower #superbloom. Huh? But Internet said? In spite of…
CaliforniaLa JollaSan Diego Torrey Pines State Beach Golden Wintertime Sunset I've been running, hiking, swimming and photographing Torrey Pines State Beach and Reserve for 37…
CaliforniaUnderwater Photography SCUBA Diving the Southern California Oil Rigs I've recently made a few more dives underneath the oil rigs (platforms) off Southern California.…
Blue WhaleCaliforniaUnderwater Photography A Few New Blue Whale Photos A huge blue whale swims through the open ocean in this underwater photograph. The blue…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaLa JollaSan Diego Eleven Great Aerial Photographs of the La Jolla Coast in San Diego I've done quite a bit of aerial photography along the San Diego coastline over the…
CaliforniaNational ParksSierra NevadaYosemite Yosemite Valley in Spring, May 2018 I try to get into Yosemite Valley each Spring, usually in May since that is…
CatalinaUnderwater Photography Giant Black Sea Bass, Stereolepis gigas, in the California Kelp Forest Giant black sea bass, endangered species, reaching up to 8' in length and 500 lbs,…
CarlsbadDesertJoshua TreeSan DiegoWildflowers Photographs of Southern California’s Spring Wildflowers — the 2017 Super Bloom During March and early April of this year I was chasing the wildflower bloom around…
AlaskaAntarcticaBald EagleCaliforniaFijiHawaiiMexicoOcean SunfishPenguinSurfUnderwater Photography Seven of my Favorite Images #challengeonnaturephotography In December a Facebook "challenge" was making the rounds named #challengeonnaturephotography. One of my favorite…
Astrophotography and Night ScapesCaliforniaJoshua Tree Blood Red Moon Madness! A Tetrad of Total Lunar Eclipses Lunar eclipse sequence, showing total eclipse (left) through full moon (right). While the moon lies…
Astrophotography and Night ScapesCaliforniaDesertJoshua Tree Perseid Meteor Shower over Joshua Tree National Park, August 2015 Each August the Perseid meteor shower takes place. This year it peaked during a new…
Astrophotography and Night ScapesCaliforniaDesertJoshua Tree Perseid Meteor Shower over Arch Rock, Joshua Tree National Park, 2015 The Perseid meteor shower occurs each August, peaking on the evenings of August 12 and…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaPanoramasSan Diego Aerial Panoramic Photo of Sunset Cliffs, San Diego, California This past spring my daughters and I took a couple flights over San Diego to…
CaliforniaUnderwater Photography Underwater Photos of Southern California Oil Rigs Recently I did some diving underneath three of Southern California's offshore oil rigs: oil rig…
CaliforniaUnderwater Photography SCUBA Diving Beneath Oil Rigs Eureka, Ellen and Elly in Long Beach, California I recently made a few dives underneath the oil rigs "Eureka", "Ellen" and "Elly", about…
La JollaUnderwater LifeUnderwater Photography Photographing Macrocystis in La Jolla’s Beautiful Forests of Giant Kelp I have been photographing kelp forests in California with a passion for 25 years, from…
CaliforniaSan Diego San Diego County Fair at Night, Del Mar, California The Del Mar Fair -- or, for noobs, the "San Diego County Fair" -- has…
Aerial PhotographyLa JollaPanoramasSan Diego Aerial Panoramic Photo of Torrey Pines Golf Course and Black’s Beach This aerial panorama of Torrey Pines Golf Course will print huge: up to about 4'…
CaliforniaUnderwater Photography Underwater Photos of Marine Algae in Southern California and Baja California I dive in Southern California and Baja California, and one of the most appealing things…
Aerial PhotographyCalifornia The Disappearing Kelp Forests of San Clemente Island I was recently diving at San Clemente Island. The profound lack of giant kelp forests…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaPanoramasSan Diego Aerial Panorama of Point Loma, Cabrillo Monument and San Diego Bay This is a highly detailed aerial panoramic photo of the southern end of Point Loma,…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaPanoramasSan Diego Aerial Panorama of the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge One of the images I wanted to add to my collection of San Diego aerial…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaLa JollaPanoramasSan Diego Aerial Panoramic Photo of La Jolla Cove and Scripps Park, San Diego Panoramic aerial photograph of La Jolla Cove and Scripps Parks (center), with La Jolla's Mount…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaLa JollaPanoramas Aerial Panorama of Bird Rock and the La Jolla Coastline Aerial Panorama of La Jolla's Bird Rock, with surfers in the water at lower right.…
Aerial PhotographyCaliforniaSan Diego Aerial Photographic Survey of San Diego Marine Protected Areas for Lighthawk I recently made a special flight with my pilot friend Steve Parker in collaboration with…
Astrophotography and Night ScapesDesertJoshua Tree Lunar Eclipse April 4 2015 from Joshua Tree National Park I went up to Joshua Tree National Park to watch the lunar eclipse of April…
CaliforniaDesert Moonflowers – Desert Wildflowers at Night "Moonflowers" - with a nod to my favorite rock band, and the best guitarist of…
San Diego Paradise in February: San Diego President's Weekend was nice here. The rest of the country is freezing, yup that's pretty…
