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Photography by David Wilson
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David’s Favorite Stories
Eel River Overlook
Humboldt County, California From a protected hollow high above the river my companions and I looked out over a world bathed in starlight, the galactic core of our galaxy reaching upward from the southern horizon and complementing the curve of ...
Visualize the Night
Humboldt County, California “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need... roads.” - Doc, Back to the Future II. One of the more challenging visualizations for me is to imagine looking at the Solar System from a point above it in outer space, far ...
The One that Got Away
Humboldt County, California Less than a week ago I read about a giant fireball, visible up and down the west coast from the Bay Area north to Washington as it streaked across the sky. My photo heart ached to have missed that one; I was probably ...
Comet NEOWISE Over California’s North Coast
Humboldt County, California If you have not seen Comet NEOWISE in the northwest skies after dark, then you really must treat yourself. It has rounded the sun in its orbit now, and the farther from the sun it travels the dimmer it will be. Though ...
“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 ...
Counter Culture to Canna Culture
Humboldt County, California. It’s the season for outdoor cannabis growing, and given that it’s also the season for the Milky Way, and I'm in Humboldt County, California, how could I not go out for some nighttime images of the new plants growing ...
The Survivor
Ancient Pear Tree in Humboldt County The gnarled old pear tree was struggling to survive, hanging onto the edge of a dried embankment above a little dirt road when my family moved there over 40 years ago. It was small, not much taller than my ...
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 ...
More of David's Favorite Photo Stories
- 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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