Sunrise this morning from Font’s Point overlooking the Borrego Badlands. The location is nicknamed “California’s Grand Canyon” because it is straight down from where I made this photo. Kinda’ scary!
Font’s Point is at the end of a 4 mile long “4-wheel drive only” off-road trail in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park near Borrego Springs.
While watching the PBS American Masters episode on the life, work and career of acclaimed photographer Pedro E. Guerrero, a photograph he created caught my eye.
Guerrero’s photograph of Taliesin West, likely taken in the 1930s or 40s from the dirt road leading up to Taliesin West, showed a small saguaro cactus about two feet tall in the foreground along side the road.
My reaction was, “I think I have photos of that same cactus taken on my last visit to Taliesin West.” Sure enough, I did.
What was just a two foot cactus in Guerrero’s photograph had grown to be a towering giant well over 20 feet tall with seven “arms” extending to the skies. Even the three rocks shown in his original photo were still there, albeit the road has since been paved.
One of my favorite homes set along the canals of Naples Island, Long Beach, California.
I came across this photo taken back in February 2012 when I joined the younger and more adventuresome members of my family for a day at Knott’s Berry Farm to celebrate a birthday. As everyone knows, or should know, I don’t do thrill rides.
While I waited for the family daredevils on the ground, I snapped this picture of them spinning around on the Windseeker ride 300 feet in the air as a jet passed overhead.
The photo was published later that week by the Los Angeles Times as their selection for “photo of the day”, making it my first official (and probably last) published “art photography”…
It was a ton of fun to hang with everyone that day, and still like the photo, and trying to identify which danging feet belongs to which family member…
The Caracal’s ancestral home ranges from central India into Asia, across Jordan, Israel, the Arabian Peninsula, and the African continent.
Here’s a couple of photos of Jay Leno’s 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado I took while visiting his studios that some of you might enjoy…
Originally a front-wheel drive powered by a 7-liter generating 385 HP, Jay stepped up the game by transforming his into a 1,070 horsepower real-wheel drive rocket ship, sitting on a modified C5 Corvette chassis.
I’m marginally obsessed with rocks. Bigger isn’t necessarily always better, but it helps satisfy my quest to study and photograph interesting rocks.
One of my favorite places to photograph rocks and boulders is the north end of Scottsdale, Arizona and neighboring Carefree.
Jao Family Sculpture Garden at UC Irvine.
When I first moved to Scottsdale in 1997, all I saw was brown dirt. The longer I lived in the desert, the more the stunning beauty of it emerged.
This photo was taken in La Quinta, California earlier today looking west towards Santa Rosa mountain way off in the distant. In the foreground on the left is Eisenhower mountain, with the edge of Indio mountain on the right. The land I’m standing on is owned by Larry Ellison, so I better keep on hiking!
Someone suggested this fountain bore a striking resemblance to me. I must admit, I have to agree.
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