Humboldt County, California An extraordinary journey awaits you at Humboldt County's Redwood Sky Walk. Nestled amidst Humboldt's many breathtaking natural wonders lies a human-made marvel that promises a remarkable journey into one of Nature’s ...
Photography by David Wilson
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David’s Favorite Stories
Redway Beach at Night – Starry Skies Over Humboldt’s Hidden Yosemite
Humboldt County, California The stars swung across the sky and the Earth revolved, but here all was quiet among the towering redwoods on the beautiful South Fork Eel River at Redway Beach in Redway, Humboldt County, California. “Where beauty meets ...
The One that Got Away
Humboldt County, California Less than a week ago I read about a giant fireball, visible up and down the west coast from the Bay Area north to Washington as it streaked across the sky. My photo heart ached to have missed that one; I was probably ...
A Bit of Whimsy
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 ...
Three Broken Rock
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 ...
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 ...
Lost in Space (Big Dipper over Trinidad)
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 ...
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 ...
“All Happy Now” Beneath the Milky Way
Humboldt County, California The “All Happy Now” earth sculpture by Peter Santino was completed in 2008, but I became aware of it only last semester when one of my students shared a photograph of it in class after an afternoon hike in the Humboldt ...
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
