About Me…
I am a photographer in Humboldt County on California’s far North Coast. MindscapeFX is my business name, but I am just me.
I’ve been photographing in Humboldt since the mid-1980’s, when my folks gave me a camera for high school graduation, and I began showing my work in the late 1980’s. I currently sell my images locally and over the internet. I love most shooting artistic photographs in the dark of night, including time-lapse videos of the stars in motion, as well as creating interesting, usually surreal, digital photomontages with my photos. I will also do the odd commercial shoot (the odder the better) and other projects. I have collected awards locally and regionally for my photographic artwork.
I have been teaching at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, CA since 2008. Since 2020, I’ve taught two sections of Art 35 Digital Photography each semester in the Art Department. Before taking on the Art 35 Digital Photography class (my all-time favorite), I taught a few other subjects, mostly Photoshop.
I contribute a periodic photo story called “North Coast Night Light” for the northern California online and print publication North Coast Journal, and for the online Redheaded Blackbelt and the Anderson Valley Advertiser, where it is called “Night Light of the North Coast.” My work has also appeared in other publications forgotten and lost in time and memory (but all deeply appreciated).
Perhaps my images and stories will help to enlighten those who have never seen the wonders all around us, and reacquaint those who might have forgotten and gotten absorbed in the race and lost their place in the mundane.
KMUD Interview, February 2, 2026.
Patrick Higgins conducted this interview for his Monday Morning Magazine on KMUD on February 2, 2026 (audio link: listen /download). Audio remastered by Alan Olmstead of Sirius Studios. The version below was re-broadcast on KYBU in Mendocino.
Thank you to KMUD, Patrick Higgins, and Alan Olmstead.
Prints and Inquiries
To license an image, have me make or photograph for you, purchase a print, or otherwise contact me, let’s please start with the contact form on the Contact page.
Find more images of mine on Instagram and Facebook, and timelapse video on YouTube:
- Instagram: @david_wilson_mfx
- Facebook: facebook.com/DavidWilsonMFX
- YouTube: youtube.com/@DavidWilson_mfx
