David Wilson’s Photo Stories – MindscapeFX

Shadow of Himslef, the Mysterious Stranger

February 12, 2020

Humboldt County, California File it under tall tales if you must; I would not be offended. You ...

Eureka’s Art Utility Boxes – Harry the Honorable Hound Dog

January 29, 2020

Eureka, Humboldt County, California Complete with 3-D ears, tongue and bone, “Harry, my Honorable ...

Vacancy at 4th & E Streets, Eureka

January 9, 2020

Humboldt County, California For years, driving by, I would see her lonely figure sitting on ...

Holiday Magic 2019

December 24, 2019

Humboldt County, California. It certainly looked a lot like Christmas in Old Town, Eureka. I’d ...

Ramparts on the Coast

December 5, 2019

Patrick's Point State Park, Humboldt County, California. ...With the Stars in Motion and Thoughts ...

A Handful of Humboldt Nights

November 19, 2019

Humboldt County, California From Patrick’s Point to the Avenue of the Giants, to the Lost Coast ...

Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)

November 6, 2019

Humboldt County, California The planet hung silently in space. A tiny jewel in the blackness, it ...

The Night the Night Light Went Out

October 24, 2019

Arcata, Humboldt County, California during PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoff Arcata Plaza on ...

Avenue of the Imagination

October 6, 2019

Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, California To what strange trip might this road lead? ...

Fading but not Forgotten

September 27, 2019

Sunflowers and the Golden Ratio in Humboldt County, California It was a ragtag group of setting ...

Milky Way over Eel River

The South Fork Bridge

We Crossed the Streams

A Fire Broke Out

A moonlit oak tree watches the passage of the stars on their nightly journey across the sky near a country road in Humboldt County, California. March 2019.

Fading sunflowers stand watch through the night.

Camel Rock, Houda Point Beach

Moonstone Beach

Vista Point, Humboldt County, CA

Star Trails over the Eel River Valley

A Handful of Humboldt

A Bit of Whimsy

March 12, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)

November 6, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX 2 Comments

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 ...

Close Encounters on the Avenue

May 9, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

Musings at the Moonstone Cave

April 23, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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. ...

Vacancy at 4th & E Streets, Eureka

January 9, 2020 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

Avenue of the Giants Guardians

July 2, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX 2 Comments

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 ...