I spent one early morning this last week at Ventura Harbor. It’s always nice to go there and walk around the beach to start the day. Below are some images I took that morning. I liked the way seaweed raked across the sand and created a kind of sand sculpture on the beach in image […]

I spent this morning in Ventura Harbor and went over to the visitors center for Channel Islands National Park. There’s a little garden at the entrance of the visitors center that has an art installation from artist BiJian. Several origami-styled sculptures resembling different animals from the islands are placed throughout the garden. The sculptures, which […]

My weekend trip to Yosemite a couple of weeks ago was great. Friday and Saturday were pretty light in terms of people. Who knew that Sunday would be the busiest day. Below is an image of Lembert Dome in Tuolumne Meadows with the Tuolumne river running through the meadow. The peak to the left of […]

Ok, so in my last blog post I mentioned that I wanted to go hiking again. Well…I did it! 🙂 I went to Yosemite for a weekend! I had to go online to recreation.gov to get a three day pass for Yosemite since they require reservations this summer to get into the park. I ended […]

A little Sesame Street humor for the title of the blog. 🙂 Below are two images I took while in Zion at the beginning of May. Checkerboard Mesa is interesting. I didn’t realize that the polarizer I had on the lens was going to turn the sky such a dark sapphire blue! I was going […]

On my trip to Bryce and Zion earlier this month, I decided to hike to the Canyon Overlook in Zion and catch a sunrise. I arrived at the parking area for the trailhead about two hours before sunrise so I could do the short hike to the overlook. Since I had a little time, I […]

Below is an image I took at Bryce Canyon on my last trip there. It’s done with a creative art filter on my camera. Looks like it created a miniaturized effect and made the canyon look like a toy play set. It almost looks like a Lego replica of the canyon. I find that the […]

I preferred to photograph Bryce at sunrise during my trip a couple of weeks ago. The light seemed to be warmer and the hoodoos and clifs lit up better. Below are some sunrise shots I took while in Bryce. I really need to update my website’s photos. I’m in the process of going through my […]

I had a great time on my trip this last week to Bryce, Zion, and Cedar Breaks. It started off a little rocky with a longer than expected delay on highway 15 heading toward Barstow, so I wasn’t able to catch the sunrise that morning at Bryce. Instead, I drove up to Cedar Breaks National […]

On my iPad there is an app called News which you can customize for the news you want to see. One of the news sections I selected led me to a really great place regarding national parks: National Parks Traveler (www.nationalparkstraveler.org). One of the latest stories on the site is regarding photography in the national […]