Archive for: February 2010

Happy Birthday Sarah…

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This post is a bit late, but that night I started to get chills/sick, so I went to bed. Anyway, I’m still ‘kicking’, other than a nagging cough (again). Dave Miller wanted to visit the Merced NWR and since I …

Our school, Keyes to Learn Charter School, had a field trip this morning to the Castle Challenger Learning Center Foundation. Being stationed at Castle AFB ‘back in the day’ and I had visited the Learning Center about 10 …

I made a few minor changes to my backyard pond. Some of the birds couldn’t figure out how to come to the water. In the process of trying to hide the plastic, I used large rocks to line it. …

Since photographing Tunnel View was a bust at sun rise, as I suspected, I drove down to the valley to try and find the place on Southside drive to see and photograph Horsetail Falls at sunset. Since I passed it …

While I was trying to take a nap I couldn’t resist taken a picture of this Raven and then later on this Mule Deer at the El Capitan picnic area…

Raven

Mule Deer…

As I was waiting until sunset to capture the Horsetail Falls, I spotted this single cloud right on top of the falls. I thought I’d convert the color image into black and white…

Cloud on Horsetail Fall…

Well, I had an opportunity to get out to Yosemite to try and capture the famous, natural firefall, ‘Horestail Falls’ at sunset. Where to go though. Through a few e-mails from Dave Miller from Bay Area Outdoors and Beyond …

Last year I wanted to build a small DIY photography blind in my backyard. I had an old play house that my kids used to play in. It worked, but I had to sit sideways and shoot. Not very …

Just got back a few hours ago from my daughters gymnastic meet in Calavaras, CA, the “Sweet Heart Invitational”. I always enjoy the trip because of the scenery…..gold country! The bad part is I’m not a morning person and we …