Northwest Pacific Railroad Humboldt County, California Built in 1910, this old railroad bridge crosses the Main Fork of the Eel River just upstream of the confluence with the South Fork Eel River. I’m not absolutely certain what to call the ...
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 ...
Milky Way over Kneeland Snow
Humboldt County, California. A snowy pre-dawn panorama just outside of Kneeland, Humboldt County, CA. February 21, 2018. I set my alarm and hit the sack. Images of the next morning’s mission to capture the rare image of a Humboldt County ...
Musings at the Moonstone Cave
Humboldt County, California We stood in the mouth of the cavern, looking out through a great broken crack in the blackness into the night as if through a window into another world. It fired our imaginations, conjuring mysteries in the night. ...
Dawn Chases the Milky Way
Humboldt County, California I pulled into the turnout and shut off the engine and lights. The stars jumped out and I joined them. Above the horizon the core of our galaxy glowed in the last darkness of the night. I smiled. Hello, Darkness, my ...
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 ...
A Bit of Whimsy
Humboldt County, California It’s not for everyone to take the world seriously all of the time, though some people probably need to, at least a little bit. But I don’t think I’m one of them. I surmise folks like that need people like me to keep ...
Beneath the Vortex
Humboldt County, California The stars wheel about the north star Polaris over Moonstone Beach, Humboldt County, California. Lights from the town of Trinidad brighten the horizon. January 25, 2019. It was a clear, still night at Moonstone Beach. ...
Reflections from Trinidad
Humboldt County, California David Wilson I opened the camera’s shutter and waited. It was already high tide, and I didn’t expect any waves to reach me. When I had arrived half an hour earlier I’d set up where the small waves coming in across ...