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 ...
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 ...
South Fork Bridge
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 ...
