Ah … the Salton Sea. It is a place I have visited many times; it is a place I’m sure I will visit yet again (even over the howls of protest from my children). On a tour I took of the Lower Colorado River region in March of this year, we visited the Salton Sea…
The Colorado River is 1450 miles long, it’s watershed encompassing parts of seven U.S. states as well as Mexico. It’s headwaters are in the Rocky Mountains, but by the time it’s reached Arizona, it’s already been dammed, by Hoover Dam, Glen Canyon Dam, and more. The Topock Marsh is southeast of Needles on the California-Arizona…
This is the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. There isn’t any wildlife in this picture, though, because I am visiting at the wrong time of the year. If it were in the winter months, this place would be filled with migratory birds, but they’ve all moved on by now. There are some birds off in…
In my travels, I have visited a few aquariums. These pictures are from the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, the Long Beach Aquarium and Heal the Bay’s aquarium in Santa Monica. Always one to take pictures wherever I go, visiting an aquarium is no exception. I have found the jellyfish to be the…
Earlier this spring while working on my as-yet-to-be-finished Owens Lake dust control project, I traveled up the Whitney Portal Road out of Lone Pine to get some shots overlooking the lake. (Lone Pine is located in eastern California at the base of Mount Whitney.)
I arrived in Monterey around 3:30 or so, having a convention to attend the next day. I headed straight out to the coast.
I’ve a long list of photoblog posts to do – on agriculture, the Salton Sea, Keeler, and a trip to Parkfield to view more of the San Andreas Fault … look for those in the upcoming weeks. I’m going to continue working on the backlog with these pictures around the San Luis Reservoir joint complex…
It looks a bit like art to me, the lines that are created as water is drawn down in a reservoir. On this day when I visited Boca Dam, the effect was quite surreal.
It was called the “Last of the Great Railway Stations”. Built at a time when railway service was starting to wane, Union Station of Los Angeles is a marvelous landmark which was becoming obsolete practically from the beginning and a remnant from an era that was perhaps the greatest for Southern California.
I’m up in the Eastern Sierra today, finishing up photography for my upcoming presentation on the Owens Lake dust control project. Yesterday was about checking out the birds at the lake; I had the pleasure of being taken on a tour by Michael Prather of the Eastern Sierra Audubon Society. (You can find pictures from…