Historic Fernbridge beneath sweeping clouds and a patient cosmos.
Photography by David Wilson
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David’s Favorite Stories
Musings at the Moonstone Cave
Humboldt County, California We stood in the mouth of the cavern, looking out through a great broken crack in the blackness into the night as if through a window into another world. It fired our imaginations, conjuring mysteries in the night. ...
The Arc of Night over Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
Humboldt County, California It was approaching 12:30 a.m. at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park as the Core of our galaxy began to crest the redwoods beyond the meadow, anchoring the band of Milky Way that stretched across the sky from horizon to ...
Three Broken Rock
Humboldt County, California Three Broken Rock is my name for this giant rock formation now, but I remember when it was one unbroken rock. Over the last forty-some years, I’ve watched it change. Location: You know that set of big rocks you can ...
How I Became the Architect of My Own Educational AI
(Or: How I Went from Star Trek Chats to Designing an AI Learning Assistant with a Zeroth Law*) David Wilson • Art 35: Digital Photography, College of the Redwoods • May, 2025 (Updated 2/5/2026: MEA removed, see below) What happens when a ...
Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)
Humboldt County, California The planet hung silently in space. A tiny jewel in the blackness, it was a half-lit marble of greens and browns and blues and whites. But it was more than a planet, it was a life-bearing droplet, a little oasis of life ...
Late one Night at Cooks Valley Bridge
Humboldt County Line, California I had never met Lula when she approached me about making some photos of her in my nighttime style of photography. But I was game; placing a figure in an image inspires stories in the mind’s eye of the viewer, and ...
Snowing at the Carson Mansion
Humboldt County, California It hadn’t snowed this much in Eureka since 1989, thirty-four years before. It was the kind of event that sends photographers out in droves to capture unique images. Fortunately, I was first to go to the historic Carson ...
“All Happy Now” Beneath the Milky Way
Humboldt County, California The “All Happy Now” earth sculpture by Peter Santino was completed in 2008, but I became aware of it only last semester when one of my students shared a photograph of it in class after an afternoon hike in the Humboldt ...
More of David's Favorite Photo Stories
- Eclipse of the Super Flower Blood Moon
- Late one Night at Cooks Valley Bridge
- ’Tis the Cannabis Harvest Season
- Perseid Meteors 2020: A Comet’s Tale
- Comet NEOWISE Over California’s North Coast
- The Arc of Night over Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
- Visualize the Night
- Vacancy at 4th & E Streets, Eureka
- Holiday Magic 2019
- Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)
- Avenue of the Imagination
- Eel River Overlook
- The Survivor
- Avenue of the Giants Guardians
- Close Encounters on the Avenue
- Musings at the Moonstone Cave
- A Bit of Whimsy
- Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
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