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Photography by David Wilson
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David’s Favorite Stories
Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
Humboldt County, California The word “photography” literally means “light painting,” and there is something about taking that idea and actually adding my own strokes of light that appeals to me. Nighttime gives me the opportunity to make images ...
Convergence at Vista Point
Humboldt County, California Beneath the majestic Milky Way, Vista Point scenic overlook along southbound US 101 lies among the Redwoods of Humboldt County, just south of Stafford, California. The primary image in this story was photographed ...
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 ...
Vacancy at 4th & E Streets, Eureka
Humboldt County, California For years, driving by, I would see her lonely figure sitting on the bench. I never stopped, but in time I grew used to her presence there, and I would look to touch base visually when I passed. Huddled inward and ...
Eclipse of the Super Flower Blood Moon
Humboldt County, California The full moon of May, 2021, called the flower moon, was a real doozy: it was a super moon, an eclipse, and a blood Moon — the first Super Blood Flower Moon into which I can ever remember having tuned. So how does it ...
Avenue of the Giants Guardians
Humboldt County, California The full moon rose over the redwood forests of the Eel River valley, bathing the hillsides in its stark light. It flashed through the redwood tree branches beside me as I drove along the Avenue of the Giants, snaking ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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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