Humboldt County, California. An odd thing happened while out sifting through the coastal night light for a compelling image. The waxing crescent moon had already set, and the night was dark. My brother Seth and I walked without lights ...
A Timelapse Trip: A Moonlit Meadow
Humboldt County, California A couple of stones’ throws north of the Humboldt-Mendocino county line in rural southern Humboldt County, California, I watched the moonlight wash away the Milky Way and bathe the land in its pale ...
Perseid Meteors 2020: A Comet’s Tale
Humboldt County, California Currently speeding out from the sun after its last visit to the Solar System’s inner reaches in 1992, Comet Swift-Tuttle leaves a trail of debris in its path. Comets are made of frozen gasses, dust, and rock; as sun’s ...
Comet NEOWISE Over California’s North Coast
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 It was approaching 12:30 a.m. at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park as the Core of our galaxy began to crest the redwoods beyond the meadow, anchoring the band of Milky Way that stretched across the sky from horizon to ...
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. There has been a lot of time for reflection. ...
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 As long as stargazing is deemed safe in these uncertain times of the COVID-19 virus, I recommend getting out there and looking long and deeply into space. Maybe it will take some of the troubles off your mind, or ...
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 Growing up, I didn’t think of Eureka, California as beautiful. Never mind that I was a kid, and what would I know about that? Maybe I simply wasn’t tapped in to the art scene, I don’t know, but I don’t recall ...
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. I’m used to odd things. I especially love when they visit me during the holidays, those special times when people want to do good things, and odd things find a welcome home. These times bring out the magical things; ...
Ramparts on the Coast
Patrick's Point State Park, Humboldt County, California. ...With the Stars in Motion and Thoughts on Geotagging A photograph can be worth many more than a thousand words. It’s an old expression, though, and maybe the number “one thousand” ...
A Handful of Humboldt Nights
Humboldt County, California I was in a situation not long ago with a handful of nights with which I knew not what to do. How many nights are there in a handful? You might wonder, though I never had, but it turns out that it depends how big they ...
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 I grew up in a home off the grid. We moved there when I was a kid, starting with no electricity at all and using kerosene lamps for light. We built on that ...
Avenue of the Imagination
Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, California Imagine, if you will, a journey down an Avenue through corridors of towering redwoods. Between them the stars hang motionless in the sky, while streaking past beneath you fly the yellow dashes of ...
Fading but not Forgotten
Sunflowers and the Golden Ratio in Humboldt County, California I’ve come to embrace the unexpected when I photograph. I tell people when I go out that it’s always an experiment, but I think they think I’m kidding. In part I am, as I am pretty ...
Beauty on the Redwood Highway, US 101
Humboldt County, California I hope my images stoke appreciation for the beauty and wonders around us here on the North Coast of California. Many people never experience so uniquely beautiful a countryside as ours, and too many who live within ...
Eel River Stargazer
Humboldt County, California Not far from anywhere on the North Coast the dark skies and solitude of nature quietly await. People travel great distances to come here to camp and hike in it, enjoying the beauty of our forests, beaches, rivers, and ...
Reflections at Richardson Grove
Humboldt County, California. As you read on your computer or mobile device, remember that you, too, can unplug, go outside not too far from where you are now and experience a night something like the one in this image. I took a break from ...
Redwood Highway Commute
Humboldt County, California I was where I wanted to be, out beneath the moonless night sky overlooking the Redwood Highway, watching others passing through the night on their separate journeys to their own destinations. What a wonderfully ...
