Two Oaks

This image is a favorite of mine from a trip last October. It was the last image I took driving back through Yosemite and the foothills leading down to Merced. The sun was setting behind a very thin veil of clouds making the light soft and magical.

The image itself represents a Digital Lightjet print created as part of a workshop I took last week with Charles Cramer and Bill Atkinson through Calypso imaging. While I remain fundamentally committed to my wet darkroom work, I recognize developing equivalent digital printing skills is essential to my development. Lots more to come in this space.

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11,800 feet

8 hours of driving yesterday and I'm here in the White Mountains for a week long photography workshop with my friends at Mono Basin Photographics. We have lots of unstable air from an early winter season storm which dumped several inches of snow. I went out this morning up above the treeline to an area known as Sheep's Pass where I took the truck photo posted here. See some here on this Flickr set.

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The Lick Fire

On Labor Day I was picking up my daughter and saw a rising plume of smoke off to the south of San Jose. I asked Ashlyn if she wanted to go see it and to my surprise she was genuinely interested so off we went. Using my iPhone and Google Maps we found some roads that looked to offer a chance to get pretty close. It was early evening when we found this great viewpoint. We couldn't get any closer.

I broke out my digital camera and made a number of photographs until it got dark. You can see a complete set here on Flickr.

Update: The Fire is 95% contained today (Sept 09) having burnt nearly 48,000 acres almost entirely within Henry Coe State Park (see this graphic). With a good winter rainy season, the wildflowers could be incredible in the Spring.

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