Sweet Spots Around Bishop, CA

Just north of Bishop there is a lovely location called Pleasant Valley. The Owens River winds its way through the grasses and reeds, providing a popular location for fishing. I was taken by the beauty and peacefulness.

One of the really great things about this part of the Eastern Sierras is the smell of sage. After walking through some I carried the smell on my clothes the rest of the day. And it is actually quite beautiful if take a close look at it. I comes in a variety of colors from red to yellow and shades of blue.

To the east and north of Bishop you can often find ponds. I say "often" because all of them are not always there. During the drought this particular pond was dry. I was so happy to see it full this year as it is one of my favorite to visit. There are other ponds east of town that were full even during the drought years so it you want to see some ponds, they are there to be found.

On the last morning of my stay, on the way out of town, I stopped at the ponds for a last visit. After shooting most of sunrise I was packing up to leave when a group of coots entered the scene. A welcomed intrusion.

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Art Display At The Center For Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa

The Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa, has a wonderful program that encourages artist members to display their work. The work is hung in the Social Hall and typically has about twenty pieces hanging for two months at a time. On March 1rst I will be hanging several images taken in Iceland, along with some wildlife images, including foxes, coyotes, eagles and kites. I will also have some paintings by my mother and two of my own. I am pretty excited about this showing. One of the pictures I will have in the show is of Godafoss, a beautiful waterfall in Iceland. When I first saw pictures of this waterfall I knew I wanted to go to Iceland to take pictures of it. This composition required gettin into some very cold water.

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The Aurora Borealis, May 10, 2024

This last May, my wife, Jan, and I were on vacation in the San Juan Islands, WA. We were there for a week staying at the Trumpeter Inn, a B&B on San Juan Island. Mid way through our stay we heard there was to be a Northern Lights display and that we would likely be able to see it since we were at a latitude just north of Victoria, BC. The excitement was immediate. The conditions were just right as the sky was cloudless and the moon was in its crescent phase and would be low on the horizon (and therefore not overly bright) during the expected good viewing time between 10 pm and 2 am. The image above was taken that night and is what I was expecting to see, a green Aurora. Little did we know what was to come! Early on the was the first hint that something special was about to happen as color in addition to green began to show. I found this very exciting as I had seen green auroras before but never one with the purple/blue colors an...

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