Mammoth Lakes Scenic Vista (Caption Help Needed)

I’ve had this and another unprocessed photo sitting on my computer for six months now because I haven’t been able to track down the name of this location. This scenic vista was taken from the waterfall bridge on the Mammoth Lakes Loop. I don’t recall the name of the bridge nor know what the valley [...]

The Journey is the Destination

Travel photography is not about F-stops, HDR or the size of camera-sensor pixels. Travel photography is about the experience. My first visit to the Eastern Sierra region was in the summer of 2004 when my friend and I took a three-day camping trip to Mono Lake / Bodie and Bishop. It was quite the trip, [...]

Devils Postpile National Monument

As mentioned in the Milky Way Galaxy post, one of the photographer’s I was traveling with wandered off to Rainbow Falls without letting us know and also left far too late in the day without being prepared for night conditions. The trail to Rainbow Falls from Devils Postpile is at least two miles through the [...]

Manzanar National Historic Site Cemetery

Did these people obtain independence before or after death?

North Lake Revisited

If you were following my blog last year then you might remember my unpleasant experience at North Lake. I opted to skip sunrise at North Lake with the photographers I was traveling with in favor of sunrise at the Owens River. When I met up the guys that morning they told me that a crowd [...]

Milky Way Galaxy

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a month since I photographed this but this photo was taken after a crazy day with a couple other photographers in Bishop Creek Canyon and Devils Postpile NM. Basically one of the photographers that I was traveling with hiked onto Rainbow Falls in the early evening from [...]

Bishop Creek Canyon Fall Colors – 2009

Greg Lato, Chris Chin, Bill Brothers and I spent the last weekend of September exploring Bishop Creek Canyon, the Owens River and Devils Postpile National Monument. I’d shot photos with Greg previously in the Bay Area but was my first time meeting Bill and Chris. Chris and myself were the only two that had explored [...]

Raggedy Ann

Raggedy Ann Dolls, Manzanar National Historic Site, California
If it weren’t for having a blog, it would probably look like I just shoot photos of anything that is laying around. In actuality, I usually have a reason for taking pictures of the subjects that I do. In this instance it dates back to my childhood. [...]

Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center

Racism Display, Manzanar National Historic Site, California
I highly recommend visiting the interpretive center museum. It just opened several years ago and has some great historical photos on display. I was so eager to go into the museum that I was barely able to pay attention to what the lady behind the counter was telling [...]

Farewell to Manzanar

Distraught Asian Man at Manzanar National Historic Site Memorial, Independence, California
Hopefully most people in this country are aware of what happened at Manzanar but if you don’t already know, it was the infamous internment camp where Japanese-Americans were shipped off to during World War II. Though I am not Japanese, I feel for the [...]

Owens Valley Overlook

Owens Valley Overlook from U.S. Highway 395, Eastern Sierra, California
I had spent the night at Mammoth Lakes where it had rained all night and through the morning. Despite the rain I went to Lake Mary a little bit after “sunrise” to see what the conditions were like. The rain turned to snow and it [...]

Mammoth Mountain Snow

First Winter Storm, Mammoth Lakes, California
Waking up to a scene like this is a slice of heaven that I want to experience every morning.
This photo was taken on the final morning of the Eastern Sierra trip. I had a long drive ahead of me in addition to some planned photography shoots along the way [...]

Dead Pine Trees, Ansel Adams Wilderness

Dead Pine Trees Killed by Carbon Dioxide Emissions near Horseshoe Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, California
The weather was pretty crappy but I drove around the Mammoth Lakes anyway. It was too windy to shoot pictures of fall foliage and very cold outside. The one interesting thing that did catch my eye was all the dead [...]

Hot Creek Geological Site

Hot Creek Geological Site, Long Valley Caldera, California
Wading in Hot Creek is currently off-limits to tourists due to the unstable nature of the geothermal activity here. I took the trail down there but you can’t even stand along the banks of the creek anymore so I went back up to the parking area and [...]

Tufa Silhouette

Tufa Silhouette and Crescent Moon, Mono Lake, California
It is my 29th birthday on Sunday so I’ll leave you with this story…
Almost all of the pictures of Mono Lake that I have seen, look pretty similar. Foreground of tufa, warm clouds at sunset and water. For some reason I felt compelled to stay a little [...]

Sierra Wave, Mono Lake

Sierra Wave over South Tufa Reserve, Mono Lake, California
One of the coolest things to photograph in the Eastern Sierras are the incredible lenticular clouds, otherwise known as the “sierra wave.” They tend to pick up a lot of color once the sun goes down and fills up the entire sky. The light was a [...]

Tufa, Mono Lake

Tufa (Calcium Carbonate Deposits), Mono Lake, California
The nice thing about having a photo blog is being able to give greater insight into what goes into the making of a photograph. In other words, it’s nice to be able to write about all the crazy stuff I do in order to get pictures. Or maybe [...]

South Fork Bishop Creek Canyon

South Fork Bishop Creek Canyon Fall Color, Inyo National Forest, California
After the sunrise shoot at the Owens River I went to breakfast before heading up Bishop Creek Canyon again to check out the fall color along the road to South Lake. On my previous visit in 2005, the South Fork had the best foliage [...]

The Owens River

Owens River Lone Tourist at Dawn, Owens Valley, California
I am obsessed with shooting pictures of the Owens River. All you hear is the sound of the water flowing by and birds chirping. No other photographers around beating their chests or making absurd requests. It is just you versus the landscape at 6 a.m.
I’ve been [...]

Aspen Grove in the Buttermilks

Aspen Grove in the Buttermilks, Eastern Sierra, California
Cory wanted to scout some photo locations deep into the Buttermilks so we took his Jeep on a bumpy ride. It was kinda freaky initially because I had never gone four-wheeling before and the car really was bouncing hardcore on the rocks. I probably should have worn [...]

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