You may have seen these cliffs before. They’ve appeared in many movies, from early cowboy films to Jurassic Park, in TV shows such as Bonanza, and even occasionally in commercials. This is the scenery of Red Rock Canyon State Park. Located along SR-14, north of Mojave, the dramatic Red Cliffs on the east side of…
It’s spring time – well, at least for a little bit longer, so that means it is green for about three weeks before everything begins turning brown. There are pictures I am trying to retake with the new camera, and so it was time to visit these iconic water infrastructure landmarks while the grass is…
Another Southern California iconic water infrastructure landmark are these pumps, visible on I-5 around Tejon Ranch. The Chrisman Windgap Pumps lift the water about 800 feet up to begin to cross the Tehacahpis to deliver water into Southern California.
On my recent trip to Sacramento (March 23 – 26, 2011), I had rented a car and had planned to spend a day traveling around and photographing the Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta, but the persistent rain and heavy flows in the rivers ruled that out. So instead, I took the chance to see how Sacramento’s flood…
I love Lake Tahoe. I grew up in Reno, and Lake Tahoe was an integral part of my childhood experience. I skied the mountains here, went to summer camp here, hiked the mountains surrounding here and spent many countless days sitting on the shoreline here. As an adult, I have returned with my family several…
It wasn’t until about the summer of 2003 that I finally went to see Bodie for the first time, which up until then, I had assumed was just a historical marker off of the 395 between Mono Lake and Walker. However, as I found out, Bodie is much more than that. Located 13 miles off…
One of the most enjoyable trips we took this year was out to a place called the Trona Pinnacles, which are located in the Searles Valley, just southwest of Death Valley.
I have on occasions too many to count, traveled the 395 through the Owens Valley. The mountains on this side are quite impressive. These are my favorite pictures of the mountains from the east side – the Owens Valley.
A couple of years ago, we took a trip out to the Kern National Wildlife Refuge. It was a little late in the spring, so unfortunately we had just missed the majority of the birds. Flooding of the habitat begins in October to coincide with the arrival of migrating waterfowl from the north, so the…