Desert Roads

Trona Road - San Bernardino County  1994

Road - Death Valley  1995

I've visited the Trona Road vanishing point spot multiple times, first in 1973. This photo was taken with a Mamiya twin-lens reflex. Alas, no particular memories concerning the bottom 35mm photo.

Monday Crow Blogging

Crow (Dante's View) - Death Valley  1995

Crow - Death Valley  1995

I can identify the top photo's location for sure, but I'm wondering about the next one. Texas Springs Campground?

Limantour Sunrise - 2009

Sunrise (Limantour Marsh) - Point Reyes  2009

Taken on a chilly January morning. I used an Olympus E-510 DSLR and a 12-60mm lens.

Afternoon Flag - Monterey

Flag - Monterey  2013

Walking around Monterey in the cool afternoon light, fog tendrils starting to appear.

Point Reyes Station

Flowering Tree (Point Reyes Station) - Marin County  2020

Building, Flowering Tree (Point Reyes Station) - Marin County  2020

Photos taken from the car.

Street Signs - Marin County  2020

Alders 2008

Alder - Point Reyes  2008

Alders and Creek - Point Reyes  2008

Photos taken in 2008 using the same location as yesterday. I was using an Olympus E-510 with a newly purchased 12-60mm lens.

Alders, Rain

Alder, Sky - Point Reyes  2020

Alders - Point Reyes  2020

I had a wide-angle lens that I wanted to try out, but I've never gotten a lens hood for it. So, the top photo was taken with an Olympus 9-18mm lens which had to be replaced with a 25mm one. The 25mm lens has a rubber lens hood which can keep raindrops off the front glass.

Coast Camp Trailhead, Rain

Alder, Lichen - Point Reyes  2020

Vines, Buckeye - Point Reyes  2020

After leaving the Limantour parking lot I drove over to the Coast Camp trailhead area, still raining.

Monday Duck Blogging

Ducks, Limantour Marsh - Point Reyes  2020

"Lovely weather for ducks."

Iris

Iris - Marin County  2020

Not at Point Reyes . . . seen on a trail at the end of our street. No blue irises this year for some reason.

Rain, Limantour Marsh

Rain, Limantour Marsh - Point Reyes  2020

As I walked back from the beach the rain really started to come down. I tried different camera angles trying to get photos of the drops hitting the water.

Limantour Beach

Tide Pool, Wave (Limantour Beach) - Point Reyes  2020

I walked over to the beach, took a few photos, then returned as it started to rain.

Coyote Bush

Coyote Bush - Point Reyes  2020

Coyote Bush - Point Reyes  2020

Seen in nicely overcast weather.

Rain, Limantour Beach

Bishop Pine, Rain - Point Reyes  2020

Limantour Parking Lot - Point Reyes  2020

So, I always get here early on a weekday morning. But I can tell by the size of the parking lot just how crowded it must become at times. (I had similar thoughts at Old Faithful in Yellowstone.)

Alas, the parking lot has been closed for a while now. [Update: now open, I think.]

Point Reyes Rain

Hills, Rain - Marin County  2020

Barn - Point Reyes  2020

Driving out to Point Reyes on a stormy morning I pulled over to get a shot of the cloud-enshrouded hills.

Monday Egret Blogging

Egret in Rain - Point Reyes  2020

Taken during a March visit this year to Point Reyes.

Clouds, Mesas

Clouds, Mesas - Utah  1996

Cloud, Mesa - Utah  1996

Photos taken with a Toyo-Field 4x5.

Last in the series of Utah 1990s photos.

Highway 70 / Clouds

Spotted Wolf Canyon, Highway 70 - Utah  1996

Mountains, Clouds - Utah  1996

These 1996 photos were taken with a large format camera.

I tried to get an updated photo of the highway 70 view . . . all I could come up with is the Google Street View below.

[UPDATE] Just by chance I just now (October 3, 2022) discovered that the top photo is a view of Spotted Wolf Canyon. Wow!

Hwy 70 (Google Street View) - Utah  2019

Dead Horse Point

Dead Horse Point - Utah  1993

In 1993 we stayed overnight in Moab on our way back to California from Colorado. I ventured forth on my own with a Toyo-Field 4x5 to Dead Horse point, not knowing exactly what to expect.

It turns out that it's one of those atmospheric, three-dimensional scenes that are difficult to capture in photographs. I remember being quite impressed with the canyons-within-canyons view. Somewhat similar to the Canyonlands 2016 photos.

Gunsmithing / Railroad Tracks

Gunsmithing - Utah  1993

Railroad Tracks - Utah  1993

35mm photos. Most likely taken with a Minolta SLR, maybe using TMax 100 (?)

Not remembering these locations.