Up From Baja: Point Lobos Migrates North
Posted on September 2, 2009 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment
Don’t know much about geology, but what I am learning defines me, in the nature of nature, as the insignifcant biped that I am.
Paid a visit to the Pinnacles National Monument. Not recommended during the summer as the temperatures regularly hover around the 100F mark. The best time to go is in the cool spring [...]
Art in Carmel: The Not-So-Good, The Bad and the Badder
Posted on September 1, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
Moseying ’round Carmel, California Saturday, I wondered how its tourist trap economy could survive when one of its major exports is cheese-ball art. There are often three or four stores selling similar product in a single block. But then, it doesn’t take too many sales to make the monthly nut. The Golden Gate Bridge picture [...]
Read More..>>Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 1 Comment
Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film [...]
Read More..>>Review: Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008
Posted on January 19, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | Leave a Comment
Most travel photographers work casually, keeping an eye out for the serendipitous or waiting for a mashup of subject, action and light in one magic “aha!” moment. Unlike Disney, I have never chased lemmings over a cliff or like Geographic, lit a cave with a thousand flashbulbs. My highest level of management is usually simply [...]
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Review: Vanity Fair Portraits: LACMA [4:11m]: The New California Academy of Sciences
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under Video, California, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
I spent a day at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. You really have to get there early to see the whole thing and have time for a lunch break. I missed the planetarium, but will return soon. Read More..>>
The California Academy of Sciences [2:16m]: 
