astrophotography – MindscapeFX

A Bit of Whimsy

March 12, 2019 by DavidWilsonMFX 2 Comments

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 ...

Comet NEOWISE Over California’s North Coast

July 20, 2020 By DavidWilsonMFX 2 Comments

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 ...

Avenue of the Imagination

October 6, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

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 ...

Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)

November 6, 2019 By DavidWilsonMFX 4 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 ...

Snowing at the Carson Mansion

March 14, 2023 By DavidWilsonMFX Leave a Comment

Humboldt County, California It hadn’t snowed this much in Eureka since 1989, thirty-four years before. It was the kind of event that sends photographers out in droves to capture unique images. Fortunately, I was first to go to the historic Carson ...

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 ...

Three Broken Rock

September 23, 2023 By DavidWilsonMFX 2 Comments

Humboldt County, California Three Broken Rock is my name for this giant rock formation now, but I remember when it was one unbroken rock. Over the last forty-some years, I’ve watched it change. Location: You know that set of big rocks you can ...