Posts Tagged ‘USA’


2 January 2012

Down in the Valley – Yosemite

I only spent a day and a half in Yosemite but the weather was kind and the valley floor is very compact.  So I made a couple of circuits looking [...]


Reflections – Yosemite

1 January 2012

Reflections – Yosemite

The Merced River runs down Yosemite’s glacier carved valley creating loads of river/pool reflection opportunities. These first two image are what’s left of Mirror Lake, now almost totally silted up [...]


1 January 2012

El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite

I spent a couple of weeks in Northern California in November and this is the first of a series of posts with a few pics of my travels.  Bit of [...]


Bill Keys in the Joshua Trees

28 March 2011

Bill Keys in the Joshua Trees

In the high desert country that was to become Joshua Tree National Park, rugged individuals tried their luck at cattle ranching, mining, and homesteading. William F. Keys settled here and [...]


26 March 2011

Water. Where?

When cattle ranchers moved in into the Joshua Tree National Park in the 1870s they located springs, dug wells and developed rainwater traps or ‘tanks’ with dams. When I visited [...]


Joshua Trees

24 March 2011

Joshua Trees

On the way back to Los Angeles from The Grand Canyon I decided to visit The Joshua Tree National Park for a day.  While eating dinner at the bar of [...]


12 March 2011

Desert Skies

Saw some pretty weird skies Nr. Amboy while heading towards the Joshua Tree National Park, California as evening fell.  Just had to keep stopping and snapping. Desert Skies Amboy, California, [...]


The Grand Canyon

8 March 2011

The Grand Canyon

I spent two night in Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim.  I ventured down for an hour or two towards the river a mile below on my first day [...]


6 March 2011

Golden Las Vegas

When the sun set over the Las Vegas view from my hotel, seminars, talks and classes were over and I was off to seek my fortune. Las Vegas Gold Las [...]


California Surfing

6 March 2011

California Surfing

Just made a trip to the US for a wedding photographer’s convention in Las Vegas. I flew into Los Angeles and spent my first night at Hermosa Beach just south [...]