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 ...
Photography by David Wilson
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David’s Favorite Stories
The Survivor
Ancient Pear Tree in Humboldt County The gnarled old pear tree was struggling to survive, hanging onto the edge of a dried embankment above a little dirt road when my family moved there over 40 years ago. It was small, not much taller than my ...
Late one Night at Cooks Valley Bridge
Humboldt County Line, California I had never met Lula when she approached me about making some photos of her in my nighttime style of photography. But I was game; placing a figure in an image inspires stories in the mind’s eye of the viewer, and ...
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 ...
Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
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 ...
Snowing at the Carson Mansion
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 ...
Eel River Overlook
Humboldt County, California From a protected hollow high above the river my companions and I looked out over a world bathed in starlight, the galactic core of our galaxy reaching upward from the southern horizon and complementing the curve of ...
Photography vs Synthography
Humboldt County, California AI-Generated Images are Here Artificial intelligence is changing the way we create images. AI-generated images can win photography competitions, and real photographs are mistaken for AI-generated images and ...
How I Became the Architect of My Own Educational AI
(Or: How I Went from Star Trek Chats to Designing an AI Learning Assistant with a Zeroth Law*) David Wilson • Art 35: Digital Photography, College of the Redwoods • May, 2025 (Updated 2/5/2026: MEA removed, see below) What happens when a ...
More of David's Favorite Photo Stories
- Eclipse of the Super Flower Blood Moon
- Late one Night at Cooks Valley Bridge
- ’Tis the Cannabis Harvest Season
- Perseid Meteors 2020: A Comet’s Tale
- Comet NEOWISE Over California’s North Coast
- The Arc of Night over Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
- Visualize the Night
- Vacancy at 4th & E Streets, Eureka
- Holiday Magic 2019
- Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)
- Avenue of the Imagination
- Eel River Overlook
- The Survivor
- Avenue of the Giants Guardians
- Close Encounters on the Avenue
- Musings at the Moonstone Cave
- A Bit of Whimsy
- Milky Way over South Fork Eel River
