David Wilson’s Photo Stories – Page 3 – MindscapeFX

Musings at the Moonstone Cave

April 23, 2019

Humboldt County, California We stood in the mouth of the cavern, looking out through a great ...

Dawn Chases the Milky Way

April 15, 2019

Humboldt County, California I pulled into the turnout and shut off the engine and lights. The ...

1964 Flood: High Water Marker on the Avenue of the Giants

March 31, 2019

Humboldt County, California In 1964 a perfect storm of snow melt and heavy rains caused a ...

Milky Way over South Fork Eel River

March 24, 2019

Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Humboldt County, California. Though some of my images are made from ...

A Bit of Whimsy

March 12, 2019

Humboldt County, California It’s not for everyone to take the world seriously all of the time, ...

Beneath the Vortex

February 3, 2019

Humboldt County, California The stars wheel about the north star Polaris over Moonstone Beach, ...

Reflections from Trinidad

February 3, 2019

Humboldt County, California David Wilson I opened the camera’s shutter and waited. It was ...

Milky Way over South Fork Eel River

January 31, 2019

Humboldt County, California The word “photography” literally means “light painting,” and there is ...

Houda Beach Cave

January 21, 2019

Humboldt County, California The Milky Way rises from the horizon near the glow of the setting ...

Milky Way over Eel River

An overcast night on the Avenue of the Giants

The South Fork Bridge

The South Fork Bridge, Annotated

Lights on but Nobody's Home

A contemplative snowy pre-dawn self portrait outside of Kneeland, Humboldt County, CA. February 21, 2018.

Milky Way arches over snowy Kneeland Hills

The Milky Way stood up on the horizon behind the old tree, sweeping across the sky from left to right like a giant clock hand through the night. The fog on the horizon was illuminated by glows around Garberville and the area to the south of town. Light from passing cars on Alderpoint Road caught the telephone pole, but cast only a glow upon the tree. August 26, 2016.

Moonstone Beach

A para-symmetrical exercise created from a nighttime image along US 101, the Redwood Highway.

A Handful of Humboldt

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. ...

Avenue of the Imagination

October 6, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

Holiday Magic 2019

December 24, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

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 ...

Milky Way over South Fork Eel River

January 31, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

Humboldt County, California The word “photography” literally means “light painting,” and there is something about taking that idea and actually adding my own strokes of light that appeals to me. Nighttime gives me the opportunity to make images ...