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 ...
Cock Robin Island Bridge
The Bridges of Humboldt County Between Loleta and Ferndale in Humboldt County, and a little to the west, the Eel River broadens and wraps itself around Cock Robin Island before depositing its fresh water into the Pacific Ocean. The island itself ...
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 ...
Isolated Thoughts & Silver Linings
Humboldt County, California During a global pandemic, one might sometimes feel a bit low and disinclined to search for silver linings. And yet at unexpected turns, one stumbles upon them anyway. With the Milky Way as a backdrop, a lonely figure ...
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 ...
Steal the Night Away
Humboldt County, California. The big kids in the neighborhood have decided they own the entire block. If you go outside, you’ll have to play what they’re playing. On April 17, 2020, I set out to photograph the Pacific dunes beneath the beautiful ...
Fields Landing Night Sky
Humboldt County, California The night was alive ninety minutes after sunset on the shore of Humboldt Bay at Fields Landing. A fishing boat glowed orange on the horizon, ground lights spilled their illuminations across the landscape and onto the ...
Snow Moon over Carson Mansion
Eureka, Humboldt County, California As one of the most photographed Victorian buildings in California, if not the United States, the Carson Mansion has crept beyond Humboldt’s borders to seep into our popular culture. Certainly it has added its ...
Shadow of Himslef, the Mysterious Stranger
Humboldt County, California File it under tall tales if you must; I would not be offended. You know that not everything you believe can be true, and not everything that’s true can be believed. And whether or not something written is true may well ...
Eureka’s Art Utility Boxes – Harry the Honorable Hound Dog
Eureka, Humboldt County, California Complete with 3-D ears, tongue and bone, “Harry, my Honorable Hound Dog” watches the cars go by from his spot on Buhne Street at the corner with Harrison Avenue. He never chases, barks or bites. Utility box ...
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 ...
Holiday Magic 2019
Humboldt County, California. It certainly looked a lot like Christmas in Old Town, Eureka. I’d gone down to photograph some nighttime holiday lights, and what should happen by but a wooden Santa ornament. It hobbled stiffly out of the store as ...
Ramparts on the Coast
Patrick's Point State Park, Humboldt County, California. ...With the Stars in Motion and Thoughts on Geotagging Ramparts stand watch over the great Pacific Ocean at the edge of the continent. The lights of a pair of fishing boats glow in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Night the Night Light Went Out
Arcata, Humboldt County, California during PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoff Arcata Plaza on the night of October, 9, 2019 during a PG&E-initiated a PSPS, or public safety power shutoff, which lasted for approximately 24 hours and left ...
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 ...
Fading but not Forgotten
Sunflowers and the Golden Ratio in Humboldt County, California It was a ragtag group of setting sunflowers awaiting us at the patch by the time I made it out there to photograph them. The forlorn farewell of sunflowers contemplating the next phase ...
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 ...
Perceptions of Time
Humboldt County coast, California The rugged northern California coast is battered by a constant barrage of waves, their motion smoothed out in this 25-second exposure. Puffy clouds blowing by overhead were changed to streaks in the camera by ...
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 ...
