I always enjoy the balcony views whenever we visit the Worldmark resort on the north shore of Clear Lake; but if I had known we would have such a great lake view this time, I would have brought along a tripod for more night photography. Also, it may have had something to do with spring break, but I saw a […]
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
The Yuba Gold Fields are a fascinating place for me because they give a very good idea of what the area around Mississippi Bar on Lake Natoma would have looked like after the dredgers finished their work in 1962. At Lake Natoma, the Teichart Aggregate Company reclaimed much of the resultant dredger tailings and crushed them into gravel; when the […]
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Here are a few more images from my recent hikes at Brown’s Ravine and Snipes-Pershing Ravine.
Lately I’ve been shooting a lot of spring wildflowers; but I’ve also been having a lot of fun shooting another springtime feature, the many small creeks that feed into Natoma and Folsom lakes. I can’t always find out the names of these tiny (and often temporary) waterways, and they’re not always easy to access — especially with so much poison […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Smooth.
Last night I couldn’t resist the chance to walk over to the bluffs with my camera/tripod for some views of the full moon. Most of my shots demonstrated that I still have a lot to learn about my camera… but there were one or two that made it just about worth the trip. Maybe by the time the next harvest […]
Last Saturday night I walked over to the bluffs that overlook Lake Natoma and the city of Folsom, and I waited for the full moon to rise. I knew with my small hand-held camera I’d have trouble getting clear images. I didn’t care — I had to at least try. It was chilly, but I was alone in the dark […]