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Self Portrait beneath Milky Way with light painting.

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

Ground level on the Avenue of the Giants, Humboldt County, California.

Fading sunflowers stand watch through the night.

Too numerous to label, stars, nebulae and planets abound in this image with some of the notable objects annotated. Not labeled is the Dark Horse Nebula; its foot is standing on Jupiter, can you spot it? Pacific Ocean, Humboldt County, California. September, 2019.

Ramparts over the Pacific, Humboldt County North Coast.

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.

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 strokes of light as they traveled down US 101, the Redwood Highway. At the far end of this visible stretch the road passes over the Eel River.

Some of the visible galactic points of interest that are reasonably identifiable passing over the old pear tree as Earth spins beneath them. Humboldt County, California.

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. ...

Eel River Overlook

July 12, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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