Saline Valley Intersection - Video

Saline Valley Road Intersection, September, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

iPhone video.

Mike first visited this unique spot in 1994.

Point Reyes Backpack

Point Reyes Backpack, June, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Last month's (short) backpack. It was windy!

Monday Deer Blogging (Vernal Fall Video)

Vernal Fall, May, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Deer were not about to get out of my way. Video shot using a Canon G5X.

El Portal Campground (Video)

El Portal Camping, May, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Dry Gulch Campground near El Portal. Special Baggy Pants edition. Shot with a Canon G5X.

Spring Storm (Video)

Spring Storm, California - Nevada, April, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Mostly taken with an iPhone, with some Canon G5X footage.

Monterey Bay Morning (Video)

Monterey Bay Morning, February, 2017 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.



Shot on a Canon G5X. I had meant to have this be a combination of tripod and handheld shots, but the handheld ones had to be discarded. Hm.

Sightems: Otters off in the distance, also gulls.

Yoshimatsu Ryokan (Video)

Yoshimatsu Ryokan, October, 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Think I used a Canon G5X and an iPhone.

There's a view of our private hot tub towards the end.

Takayama Morning (Video)

Takayama AM, October, 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Early morning iPhone video clips, strung together.

Ryoanji - 3 (Video)

Ryoanji, October, 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Another impromptu iPhone video.

Osaka: Dotonburi District (Video)

Osaka - Dotonbori 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Making takoyaki, etc.

Morning Coffee (Video)

Morning Coffee, August 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Hokey video Mike put together on the spur of the moment. Morning coffee, then, after packing everything up, a short drive north to Lake Tahoe for a motel night.

Video taken with a Canon G5X, edited in Adobe Premiere Elements. Camera shown in video is an Olympus E-PL7.

Canon G5X on Tripod - Sierra Nevada  2016

Yosemite Falls Video

Yosemite Falls, May 2016 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Before heading on home, I drove up to the Yosemite Lodge parking lot and walked to the base of Lower Yosemite Fall. First up, a pileated woodpecker! Then, some experimenting with iPhone video movements.

The clips were taken between 7:30-8:00 AM. Interesting: I had the path to myself the whole time.

Bryce Canyon Hike - 5

Bryce Canyon National Park - Queen's Garden Hike from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Taken with a Canon G5X using a tripod at beginning and end.

Zion Hike - 5 (Video)

Zion National Park - Hidden Canyon Hike from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Camera inventory for the hike: Olympus E-M10 with a 14-150 zoom lens; Olympus E-M5 with a 9-18mm zoom lens and a Canon GX5 (used for this video).

And, of course an iPhone 6S Plus.

Point Reyes Video

Point Reyes June 2015 Video from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

So . . . I carried a tripod this time! Alas, the wind was constant, so long exposures for still photography weren't all that practical. I ended up using it exclusively for video.

Speaking of the wind, notice the last shot in the video. Just afterwards I turned towards the waves to take a still photo when I heard a soft thud in back of me. Yes, the little Nikon I've been using for video had been knocked over by the wind, while still on the tripod, and was buried in the sand. The lens refused to retract for a while, but a little prodding at the grains of sand with a Swiss Army knife seemed to do the trick.

Limantour Beach #3 (Video)

Limantour Beach, January 2015 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Video taken with a Nikon P7800 that I bought refurbished.

Amtrak (Video)

Video taken using an iPhone 5s. Edited so as to appeal specifically to the 2-year old toddler demographic.

Shinjuku Station

Shinjuku Station Tokyo April 2014 from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.

Taken using an iPhone 5s, edited in Movie Maker.

Approaching Storm

Sierra Storm 0913 Video from Mike Mundy on Vimeo.


Taken with Mike's older Canon G12.

Mike almost felt that he should climb one of the trees, as a homage to John Muir. But he didn't.

Being accustomed to climb trees in making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion. The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobo-link on a reed.

In its widest sweeps my tree-top described an arc of from twenty to thirty degrees, but I felt sure of its elastic temper, having seen others of the same species still more severely tried--bent almost to the ground indeed, in heavy snows--without breaking a fiber. I was therefore safe, and free to take the wind into my pulses and enjoy the excited forest from my superb outlook.

--John Muir, The Mountains of California

March Rain

From the front porch. I used a tripod-mounted Canon G12.