When you’re hiking on Mississippi Bar, one thing you can be sure to find is plenty of rocks — in all sizes, shapes, and colors. After awhile, you’ve seen so many rocks everywhere you start to go a little bit rock-crazy; I had to stop myself from shooting every random boulder that caught my eye! I had the suspicion that […]
I have no idea why someone decided to plant a flag atop of this pile of dredger tailings at Mississippi Bar. But I was happy to see it, because it was completely unexpected — and gave me a good excuse to climb to the top and check out the somewhat dreary landscape.
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week: Isolated Subjects.
There is plenty of water on Mississippi Bar right now, thanks to all the storms we’ve had lately. Most of it seems to be collected within vernal pools and other depressions — but not this energetic little creek, rushing and bubbling its way toward Lake Natoma. I got a chance to play around with a slower shutter speed on my […]
I see plenty of these tiny red plants popping up from between rocks on the Mississippi Bar trail, but I haven’t been able to identify them. They start out green and then transition to bright red, and they’re so small — no more than 1 mm across — that I’ve had a hard time getting down to shoot them. But […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Color of Your Choice. I chose green because it’s my mom’s <3 favorite color, and there’s so much of it around right now, thanks to all the rain we’ve been having lately!
This was my first time spotting a coyote in the wild! I went hiking on Mississippi Bar this afternoon and was just turning toward home — there he was. Although I noticed a few other people out enjoying the day, they all seemed blind to the fact they were walking past this big guy standing in the middle of the […]
Three of my favorite images from November 2016. Every year, every season has its own signature look, never quite duplicated ever again.