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 ...
The Arc of Night over Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
Humboldt County, California The Milky Way soars over Giant redwood trees across the meadow at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. If your mind bends thinking you recalled the road as straight passing this area, you are correct. Lines are warped due ...
A Handful of Humboldt Nights
Humboldt County, California From Patrick’s Point to the Avenue of the Giants, to the Lost Coast of legend, I give you… a handful of seven lovely Humboldt Nights. I was in a situation not long ago with a handful of nights with which I knew not ...
Avenue of the Imagination
Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, California To what strange trip might this road lead? Ground level on the Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, California. No cars were out at 12:30 A.M. on this little rural road this Sunday evening, but ...
Beauty on the Redwood Highway, US 101
Humboldt County, California Late night cars paint their strokes of light onto the dark canvas along a corridor of towering Redwoods on US 101, the Redwood Highway. Photographed from an overpass on the Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, ...
Eel River Stargazer
Humboldt County, California Photographing beneath the stars on the South Fork Eel River. Humboldt County, Californa. Not far from anywhere on the North Coast the dark skies and solitude of nature quietly await. People travel great distances ...
Reflections at Richardson Grove
Humboldt County, California. My brother Seth and I watch the world go by one summer night on the banks of the South Fork Eel River in Richardson Grove, Humboldt County, California As you read on your computer or mobile device, remember that ...
Redwood Highway Commute
Humboldt County, California Folks were going places late one night in Humboldt County, California. I watched them go by. I had no place to go especially, for I was there already. They were illuminating my foreground, painting it in with their ...
Eel River Overlook
Humboldt County, California The Eel River glides between Redwood-covered hillsides under the night sky. I was there with a former student and her friend and we played with our cameras while we stood in awe of the night. There was even a shooting ...
The Survivor
Ancient Pear Tree in Humboldt County An old, stunted pear tree abides in its nightly vigil beneath the Milky Way. The tree lives in Southern Humboldt County, California, but the far ridge line is in Mendocino County. The gnarled old pear tree ...
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 ...
Vista Point, Humboldt County
Humboldt County, California I am not a huge traveler, but I’ve seen the marked exits up and down the state for Vista Point. It’s a geographical oddity somehow accessible from anywhere, and we are fortunate be home to the world famous Vista Point ...
Close Encounters on the Avenue
Humboldt County, California The Avenue of the Giants is as beautiful a drive as you will find. The groves along its 36-mile course line the Avenue with some of the grandest examples of the tallest trees on Earth, the California coast ...
1964 Flood: High Water Marker on the Avenue of the Giants
Humboldt County, California In 1964 a perfect storm of snow melt and heavy rains caused a historic flood in Humboldt County and the greater Pacific Northwest. Along the Eel River watershed, the raging flood waters wiped out roads, bridges, and ...
Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, California. Though some of my images are made from multiple exposures, this one is a single exposure, painted with light. The word “photography” literally means “light painting,” and there is ...
