While I am presenting most of my current work in “black and white,” there are subjects that require presentation in color. The “golden hours” around sunrise and sunset almost demand color capture. Deep in a redwood forest, color can provide a sense of the quality of the filtered daylight reaching ground level.
- Recovering Forest explores a regrowing redwood forest near my home. Best evidence is that this section was logged about 125 years ago in the 1890s. Though located in an area with almost perfect climate for the redwood tree, few trees have yet to reach dominant position while the battle for light, moisture and nutrition continue. It will be many years if not centuries before this forest looks as it once did.
- Pebble Beach captures a 500 foot-long pocket beach across the seasons of the year. In a Google search, I found six different beaches in California named Pebble Beach. The most famous is, of course, the beach and golf links on the Monterey Peninsula. The subject of this gallery is in northern Sonoma County and close to my home.
- Black Point Beach tells the story of the 1000-yard-long sandy beach at the southern end of The Sea Ranch. This beach is at the foot of a coastal bluff 30- to 50-feet tall. It’s wide expanse at low tides offers wonderful morning walks throughout the year.
- Summer Solstice captures the coastal meadows and bluffs around the time of the summer solstice, a period widely regarded as the most difficult time of year to photograph the landscape. While the photography capture window is brief each day, interesting landscape images are possible.
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