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I often start a day shooting landscapes when something pulls me in and catches my eye. A pattern on a heron’s feather, a reflection on a Porsche’s taillight, a fleeting shadow inside a blade of grass.
While I frequently attempt to frame an image that can pull the eye into a single detail, these sparks of light capture me and suddenly, it is the single detail that encapsulates the entire landscape.
Looking east at first light in late November 2015 provides an unneeded reminder that California is on fire, as are many places in our beloved Western U.S.
Travel north from the Teton Valley in Idaho during Spring and be prepared for Winter.
How do you keep a fast car planted on the road? Play with the air. It may work. Or not. Either way, the sculpted metal on these vintage race cars is all business.
Living on the Pacific Coast often yields intense sunsets which, when they're captured, take on a beauty that cannot be anticipated.
The barren talus slopes of peaks in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada bring surprises at every turn you make.
Early morning can be magical, especially when a few Porsche 911s are pointed north on CA-1, located on the Northern California coast.
A 2-ton elephant seal on Drake's Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore sleeps hauled out on the shore.
If you look closely, there is a wild animal who seems to be sleeping, although maybe, she is stalking you in a very clever manner.
During a quick break from a road rally in Northern California, the early AM light on Mt. Tam just north of the Golden Gate made 2 of the 911s seem unearthly.
Watching something like a Swallowtail Tiger butterfly stop for a long moment to feast is like watching time stop. For just a moment.
Water. Almost everywhere is water. The mighty Pacific Ocean twice daily fulfills it's incoming and outgoing tidal chores.
When a forest of ferns gives up lots of green, and, in fact, the only colors that can be seen are different shades of green, go green.
Wake up early. Pick a spot on the map. Find a painted surface on the inter-tidal zone that is both unanticipated & will be never seen again.
Leaving San Rafael, CA for a ~600 mile road rally in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. An early start is required (and desired) when traveling over Sonora Pass.
Rennsport Reunion 2018 at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey CA was an aural and visual candy store for all things associated with Porsche motorsport.
What is this?! I have no idea! But I do know where it is located. Plan well and you too can see this (sometimes) buried treasure.
This fellow ended it's life and made a piece of art. Good timing. RIP.
When a king low tide appears near Drake's Estero on the Point Reyes National Seashore, get ready to see a unique world appear before your eyes.
Christmas 2020 on Bainbridge Island, WA was anything but normal. It felt as if the light of civilization was vanishing due to distrust & lies & the pandemic.
The Pacific Northwest does not give up the light as readily as a location closer to the equator, but when it does, it does in a spectacular form.
In a brief moment in time, a harbor seal and a human paddle out of Blakely Harbor on Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Less is more. Remove weight. Gain quickness. And speed. And, if it needs to be said, a bit more nimbleness through the twisties. Go drive.
Historic race cars that are regularly driven in vintage races on the track in competition are living works of mechanical art.
A clean metallic surface yields an almost 3-dimensional reflection of the Pacific Ocean & sky while rapidly moving (yes, this is rolling art).
There is something to be said for a reverse commute, especially if it includes a ferry ride from Seattle to Bainbridge Island.
Traveling in opposite directions at 75 MPH yields a blurry speck of a moment in time to think about how much humans have altered the landscape.
Around mile 700 of a nearly 800 mile sports car rally, the welcoming deciduous forests of the Pacific Northwest were intoxicating.
The Olympic National Forest located just south of Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park, looks tranquil and still.
This one ton being, which humans call a Northern Elephant Seal, is sleeping like a baby in the Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco.
The processing of this image removed much of the shape of these 911s, but if I stare at it for a few moments, my eye begins to fill back in what is missing.
After more than 8 hours wondering among the metallic eye candy at the PCA's Werk's Reunion in Monterey CA, I find parked under a tree, a survivor.
The heat signature of the 3.6 liter flat 6 engine of a Porsche 993.
This 993 Carrera is on the first leg of a 600-mile rally from the San Francisco Bay area to the Eastern Sierra Nevada and back, in one glorious day.
My simplest homage to the marque. My 2010 Carrara White Carrera 4S (997.2). Less is more. Form over function. Win on Sunday. Drive to work on Monday.
The Pacific Northwest reveals itself in subtle manners, if the light is right and you are lucky enough to have your eyes open.
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
— Diane Arbus