Shooting this bridge has been on my list for awhile, and I finally decided there was no time like the present. The sunset cooperated, but the lights did not. I waited until long after sunset for the bright lights to turn on that illuminate the towers but they never came on. That will be a photo for yet another day. Enjoy the sunset!
Night shots require a little bit of patience along with some luck. It gets dark every night but not every night has this kind of mood to it. The dark sky made this long exposure really made Grace Cathedral look out of this world.
This was on the beginning of a long drive from the west side to the east side of the Sierra Nevadas. The drive ahead of me was long, but I made time to stop for this beautiful sunset!
An old oak tree, the setting sun, and a vineyard. Fall colors don’t really happen in most of Northern California, but there are still places to take advantage of the cooling weather and take some photos.
Some sunsets have clouds, some sunsets are yellow. This one has a crazy shade of purple and a joshua tree. I used a flash and a green gel to light the tree up in a color that offset the sunset. It worked even better than I expected!
I’m not going to lie, I was hoping for some big puffy clouds and a classic sunset when I was driving up to Crater Lake. What I got was a clear night, with a side of forest fires. The fires are horrible, but they did mean there was one moment when the sun left these streaks in the sky just after sunset.
First came the rain, then the sun went down, and then the sky turned a crazy shade of orange. This might just be the top level of a parking garage, but the combination of the reflective concrete, the orange sky and a plane flying in the distance make this a fun shot.
This building stands above the rest of downtown Mountain View. It wasn’t always a nice place to be. After it was built, it was not occupied for many years, and got the name Dog City due to the fact they let dogs live on the first floor to scare away squatters!
Taken from onboard the boat taking us away from this beautiful island, and on to the next stop. We were hard to miss with this bright red deck against the water.
The skiing at Whistler was just OK this year, but the views were excellent!
