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The Year of the Desert Lily: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Wildflowers in Spring 2024 DesertSan DiegoThe American SouthwestWildflowers

The Year of the Desert Lily: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Wildflowers in Spring 2024

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park occasionally has exceptional spring wildflower blooms. 2024 was one of those years, it was a nice, fairly typical bloom and not a Superbloom. The last Superbloom we had in Anza-Borrego was in 2017.  (And no, 2019 was not a superbloom).  But the 2024 bloom in Anza-Borrego…
March 28, 2024
35 Beautiful San Diego City Skyline and Coastal Views Beautiful Views of San DiegoLa JollaSan Diego

35 Beautiful San Diego City Skyline and Coastal Views

I love photographing San Diego's city skyline and the region's coastal scenes, particularly those that feature panoramas of downtown San Diego and its waterfront as well as long compressed coastal views that layer sea cliffs, beaches,  and coastal mountains.  I've been photographing San Diego and La Jolla in earnest for…
March 10, 2021
Western Grebes and Clark’s Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges BirdsSan Diego

Western Grebes and Clark’s Grebes Rushing on Lake Hodges

Western Grebes (Aechmophorus occidentalis) and Clark's Grebes (Aechmophorus clarkii) exhibit some of the most elaborate and impressive courtship behavior found in the animal world, including various vocalizations, swimming movements, the exchange of nesting material ("weed ceremony") and, most notably, the "rushing ceremony".  When grebes rush, they rise entirely out of…
March 9, 2021
Photographs of Southern California’s Spring Wildflowers — the 2017 Super Bloom CarlsbadDesertJoshua TreeSan DiegoThe American SouthwestWildflowers

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 the southernmost parts of California. The wildflower bloom was indeed spectacular and went on for weeks with vast displays of color. Was it a "super bloom"? I'm not sure. Somewhere during March the interwebs began…
July 16, 2017
Aerial Panoramic Photo of Sunset Cliffs, San Diego, California Aerial PhotographyBeautiful Views of San DiegoPanoramasSan 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 shoot panoramas while the conditions were good. This is one of my favorites, showing the beautifully scalloped coastline of Sunset Cliffs, north of Point Loma. You can even see the sandstone outcropping we jumped off…
August 5, 2015
Aerial Panorama of Point Loma, Cabrillo Monument and San Diego Bay Aerial PhotographyBeautiful Views of San DiegoPanoramasSan 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, with Cabrillo Monument and both old and new lighthouses visible. The original Cabrillo lighthouse is seen atop the bluff, while the new lighthouse is down near the water's edge next to the green lawns. North…
May 11, 2015
Aerial Panoramic Photo of La Jolla Cove and Scripps Park, San Diego Aerial PhotographyBeautiful Views of San DiegoLa JollaSan 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 Soledad rising above, La Jolla Shores and La Jolla Caves to the left and the La Jolla Coast with Children's Pool (Casa Cove) to the right. The undersea reefs of Boomer Beach are seen through…
April 29, 2015
Aerial Photographic Survey of San Diego Marine Protected Areas for Lighthawk 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 Lighthawk. Lighthawk's mission is "to accelerate conservation success through the powerful perspective of flight". On this flight, we were trying to produce new aerial images of several Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the San Diego…
April 26, 2015
Surfer’s View of Scripps Pier Perfect Sunset, Solar Alignment, La Jolla Beautiful Views of San DiegoSan Diego

Surfer’s View of Scripps Pier Perfect Sunset, Solar Alignment, La Jolla

Twice each year, the sun sets perfectly centered in the long thin window of the Scripps Research Pier pilings. Photographing this event is frankly rather formulaic and straightforward, to the point that people pack the narrow space on the shore between the pier pilings well before the sunset to ensure…
August 12, 2014
High Resolution Panorama of San Diego City Skyline and San Diego Bay Beautiful Views of San DiegoCaliforniaSan Diego

High Resolution Panorama of San Diego City Skyline and San Diego Bay

Here is another recent panoramic photo of San Diego, photographed on a beautiful spring afternoon. This one spans nearly the entire width of the bay, and includes the yacht marinas of Shelter Island in the foreground. I photographed this with a top quality 300mm f/2.8 lens and high resolution camera,…
March 20, 2014
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel at Sunrise, Embarcadero Marina, San Diego Beautiful Views of San DiegoSan Diego

Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel at Sunrise, Embarcadero Marina, San Diego

The blue pre-dawn sky, with just a hint of the color that is to come with sunrise, serves as a backdrop for the distinctive towers of the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel, overlooking the yachts in their slips along San Diego's Embarcadero marina. Cheers and thanks for looking! Manchester Grand Hyatt…
December 5, 2013