Category: Weekly Blog

  • The Caldera of Santorini

    The Caldera of Santorini

    This past April I took my first ever trip to Greece, a week-long photography tour with Light & Land (www.lightandland.co.uk). This was not only my first trip to Greece, but anywhere close to Greece; the closest I had ever been to Greece was London. Anyone who has paid attention to social media knows exactly where

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  • Sweetwater March

    Sweetwater March

    This past winter in Tucson was disappointingly mild. Certainly every winter in Tucson is mild by most measures, and not a winter at all for Minnesotans. But usually there are some respectable hard freezes and last winter it even snowed.

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  • Minneapolis Miscellany

    Minneapolis Miscellany

    I live in Arizona. Southern Arizona. Winters are mild. February is mild. In Tucson, in most years, it will get down to about 28°F. Once a decade or so it gets down to about 18°F.

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  • Peeks at Tower Peak

    Peeks at Tower Peak

    Last weekend I drove west over Gates Pass in the Tucson Mountains in the hope of finding an interesting location to photograph the sunset. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I was interested in photographing at sunset

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  • Belated Visit: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

    Belated Visit: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

    It is a three hour drive from Tucson to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. For someone that has driven from Tucson to Vermont and back with a wife and four children under 12, that is not a long way. But it is long enough that driving out then back with a few hours to explore…

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  • Waimea Sunbreak

    Waimea Sunbreak

    Last March, my wife and I rented a resort apartment for a week in Princeville on Kauai, Hawaii. We drove all the way around the island to reach the entrance to Waimea Canyon, but it was so socked in with fog and clouds and rain that for most of the subsequent scenic drive we feared…

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  • Oxnard in Artificial Light

    Oxnard in Artificial Light

    My first of three trips to Oxnard last year was only a few weeks after I received my new Nikon Z7. I really hadn’t had much time to use it yet, so I spent an evening after dark walking around the hotel grounds taking pictures of whatever looked interesting. Since it was dark outside, everything…

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  • Shorebirds Aloft, Oxnard Edition

    Shorebirds Aloft, Oxnard Edition

    This is a follow-up to my previous post. That post featured Oxnard Beach shorebirds actually on the beach, whereas this post features exclusively birds in flight.

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  • Shorebirds Afoot, Oxnard Edition

    Shorebirds Afoot, Oxnard Edition

    My wife, Susan, travels frequently on business to Oxnard, California, and I ended up visiting her three times over the past six months. I take some time each trip to photograph the birds on the beach.

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  • Lava Seascape

    Lava Seascape

    Less than twenty minutes after taking Volcanic Dawn, the photograph featured in the previous post, I had the camera perched on the tripod for this shot. Without moving the camera, I took 23 shots over about three minutes.

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