These are locations and events that I found interesting and want to share. Photos may be all from one day, or there may be photos from a location that span many visits possibly over many years.
What’s the worst motel you’ve ever stayed in? Was it bad? Was it really bad? Do you think it reached the level of “The World’s Worst Motel”? I’ve stayed in some pretty cheap and funky places in my travels, but two establishments stood out from all the others – and …
(With guest contributor, KJ Swan of InsanityWithStyle.com.) National Parks are the greatest destinations in the United States of America. From the 8.3 million acre Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska to the tiny 91 acre Gateway Arch in Missouri, National Parks preserve and protect over 130,000 square miles of American soil. There …
In September, I scanned a lot of my old negatives and slides and found a whole lot of train pictures that I shot in the 1990’s. It was a time when I spent a lot of days watching and photographing trains at the San Luis Obispo railroad station, and going …
This is going to be an odd post for a photographer’s blog, but here goes… Once long ago, in the days when thin plastic strips coated with photosensitive chemicals were loaded into manual focus cameras, when you had to take 36 pictures before you could go to the lab with …
As you may know if you’ve been following my photography, I vary quite a bit in my subject matter. I’ve done lots of landscape, architecture, ruins, and for the past few years a lot of wildlife photography. But I think my favorite (and most under-represented) has always been sports. Whether …
In the early days of the automobile, design was driven primarily by function and not a lot of thought was put into styling. Bodies on cars like the original Ford Model T remained unchanged for ten or more years – engine under a hood, body for the occupants – all …
Shell Creek Road off of Highway 58 east of Santa Margarita can almost always be counted on for a good show of wildflowers. I took a drive out on Saturday, March 30th and was not disappointed. This video showing the abundance of flowers (and people) on Shell Creek Road was …
Where The End of the World Might Have Started The Titan Missile Museum was once ICBM Site 571-7, a former Titan II nuclear missile silo in Green Valley, Arizona, located just a few miles south of Tucson. I discovered it while looking for somewhere where I could drive to and …
2018 has been a whirlwind of activity and unexpected twists and turns. We stayed close to home for the most part, just a couple of minor California road trips, but we kept ourselves pretty busy. It was our most unplanned year of travel so far – we did a lot …
We arrived in San Francisco the afternoon of Wednesday the 21st of December. We arrived early, so before checking into our hotel we headed over to the Holy Virgin Cathedral Russian Orthodox Church on the recommendation of the wise people of the Internet as an interesting place to see. As we walked by we noticed that the front door was open and stepped inside. The church was full of people, both in the main sanctuary as well as an outer vestibule. We stood and watched the service with interest. After a time, the service seemed to be closing down and…
Morro Bay is a small fishing community located on the Pacific ocean half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It’s probably best known for it’s landmark volcanic cone, Morro Rock, at the harbor entrance and perhaps only slightly less known for the three tall stacks of the old power plant at the harbor’s edge. Morro Rock is a 581-foot high volcanic plug, the hardened remnants of magma that was inside a volcano over 20 million years ago. Over time the rest of the volcano eroded away leaving the relatively tiny Morro Rock behind…
